Posted on November 25, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
The $1.50 big draft beer special at Hemingway’s today is Hoegaardens. I swear it. It’s pretty good. I’ll have a couple, make it home and post this, then call the Census Bureau and set up my interview and employment test and then scoot on over the Millvale Street Bridge to Bloomfield to get my contribution [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Today at the employment and training center I got two great job leads. I already knew about the Census Bureau but now I have more of the skinny. The second lead is about a health insurance company downtown. I emailed a cover letter (and attached my resume) to the health insurance company. I’ll leave early today so [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
How much of real life goes into my flash fiction stories? That’s a tough question. I do consider myself a “realistic minimalist”. I don’t write fantasy and pass it off as fiction; but I’m not a news reporter simply jotting down actual events and passing them off as flash fiction, either. See, the problem is [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Can we spell DEPRESSION boys and girls? A recession is when your neighbor has no job. A depression is when you have no job. Last night as I watched the evening business news on the Public Broadcasting System I kept getting the awful feeling that the present administration has no idea what it’s doing. The [...]
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