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Another Day, Another Fifty Cents

On June 28, 2018June 28, 2018 By wastedpilgrimIn LifeLeave a comment

Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, June 28, 2018, 10:14 a.m. It’s going to be another week that was. By definition. To quote one of my songs, “No matter where you go, there you are.” This one, though, has been particularly enlightening. I’m making a transition into a job running the county’s news site, GoLaurens.com, which also …

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Comforts of the Distant Past

On July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 By wastedpilgrimIn FictionLeave a comment

Nothing was a surprise, but everything was awful. A man gets a sinking feeling, knowing he's doomed, that he's making too much, and his age makes him cost too much, and the company gets to where it makes his life miserable for a while, hoping to run him off, and then it finally just lays …

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The Feeling Bottoms Out

On April 8, 2015 By wastedpilgrimIn Fiction1 Comment

I didn’t plan on tumbling right back into another short story, but today really is my birthday. When my job was eliminated, it wasn’t on my birthday. Obviously, this is total fiction, and any similarity to actual events … you know the drill. The first observation of Clyde Barns on his birthday was that his …

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Little Things Mean A Lot

On March 13, 2014March 13, 2014 By wastedpilgrimIn HumorLeave a comment

It’s funny what you miss and what you don’t. (I could’ve seemed intelligent and grammatically correct by writing “what one misses and what one doesn’t,” but hell, I’m already writing in first person so what’s it matter? Nowumsayin?) For instance – imagine Warner Wolf saying “in an upset!” – I haven’t seen The Weather Channel …

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