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    612-822-4611

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The Invisible Games: Events We've All Competed In Without Realizing It

The Invisible Games: Events We've All Competed In Without Realizing It

Penley, Victoria

Paperback

Series: Oddly Comforting Collection

HumorSelf-Help

ISBN10: 1971604259
ISBN13: 9781971604251
Publisher: Creative Scribbles, LLC
Published: Aug 7 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

You have competed your entire life. No one told you the Games had started.

Every day, without noticing, you enter competitions no one agreed to hold. You race the microwave. You judge the checkout lines. You carry all the groceries in one trip because two would feel like giving up. You press the elevator button that's already lit - and then press it again, harder, because apparently that's how electricity works.

The Invisible Games is a collection of twenty short, funny essays about the tiny, universal contests that fill an ordinary human life - and the strange relief of realizing everyone else is competing in them too.

From the Grocery Bag Decathlon to the Revolving Door Relay, from the Name-Remembering Pentathlon to the great vigil of the airport luggage carousel, Victoria Penley turns the smallest moments of daily life into full-blown sporting events - complete with gold medals, replay reviews, and the occasional oddly comforting truth. If you've ever lost to an unwieldy shopping cart, sprinted to bed before the dark could get you, or lost a silent standoff to a parking space - congratulations. You've already qualified.

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