tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29638697123376146052024-02-21T17:41:14.622-08:00RustyHenrichsen.ComJust read, dammit.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-40317590292494782792015-02-18T11:46:00.001-08:002015-02-18T11:46:07.651-08:00Farewell BloggerThe time has come for me to move on.<br />
Join me over at <a href="http://rustyhenrichsen.com/">RustyHenrichsen.com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-89069926659337051652015-02-11T14:11:00.000-08:002015-02-16T14:50:14.271-08:00Farewell ScrivenerI shall miss you, but I can no longer wait for the iOS version. I need to write wherever I am with whatever I've got. At work, at home, on the go.<br />
In the meantime I'm switching to <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plaintext-2/id769101727?mt=8" target="_blank">Plain Text</a>. It is a great, simple, little app with word and character count. The syncing is bulletproof and near instant without the typical delays and slog of conflicted files common to so many other writing apps I've tried.<br />
Now I can write on my iPhone, iPad or my PC by keeping my files and folders organized in Dropbox.<br />
The disadvantage of all of this is that PlainText is, (who could have guessed?) plain text only, so I'm using Notepad now, rather than my beloved Scrivener when I'm on a PC. Have heart though; it's only through the first draft.<br />
I write my chapters as individual files with the # symbol between scene breaks for when the time comes to import into Scrivener. Using<i> Import and Split</i>, my scenes import as individual cards within my Chapter Folder in Scrivener. Make sure you import as UTF-8 or your import will be messy. Once you've got it in there you also have to convert it to your default text style. Next is editing and markdown.<br />
It's not perfect. Perfect will be when I have an iOS version for iPad and iPhone that syncs with my PC. Until that day comes I will continue the struggle to perfect my workarounds.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-35604315854868190652014-12-23T09:58:00.000-08:002014-12-23T09:58:00.049-08:00Emmettville is free, Dec 24th-29thMerry Christmas you filthy animals! Don't forget to swing on by the Amazon store and pick up your free copy of Emmettville. It's a terribly dark tale of alcoholism, infidelity and murder. It's right up your alley, you deviant you. <a href="http://mybook.to/emmettville">mybook.to/emmettville</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-18464949183090634322014-10-30T14:08:00.000-07:002014-10-30T14:08:54.081-07:00CheerleadersI couldn't ask for a better cheerleader then my wife. It's amazing to me just how supportive she is of me, of my writing. I love you, Tessa!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-34651865425474505702014-10-29T14:51:00.001-07:002014-10-29T14:52:27.566-07:00Favorite Time WasterWhen I'm wasting time that should be spent writing, I like to pretend I'm actually doing "writing related" things. For example: I probably spent two hours today tweaking my Scrivener template to <i>perfection.</i> It's beautiful. It really is. It is so beautiful in fact, that I actually want to write something instead of idly fucking around.<br />
Will I? Let's hope.<br />
Sometimes these little exercises do serve a purpose. They get me excited. They get me thinking about writing again. I like planning, organizing, outlining and streamlining my process for efficiency. It's just who I am.<br />
What about you? Are you a planner or a pantster? What is your favorite method of procrastination, of wasting time when you should really be writing?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-66209414776687063842014-09-03T11:17:00.001-07:002014-09-03T11:17:42.087-07:00How to Intensify Conflict & Deepen Characters—The Wound This is just too good not to share. Many thanks to Kristen Lamb.<br />
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<a href="http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/how-to-intensify-conflict-deepen-characters-the-wound/">http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/how-to-intensify-conflict-deepen-characters-the-wound/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-55962385503719159762014-07-22T13:43:00.001-07:002014-07-22T13:43:36.573-07:00Busy...I've been busy. So busy. Too busy. We've recently moved off-grid, out to the country and radically downsized which is <i>awesome</i>. The downside is I have at least a million projects to complete before the snow flies. Actually, I like projects.The downside is I have no time to write. I am still journaling, but my fictional characters are stuck in limbo for the time being. I hope they'll hang in there and have a fantastic story to tell me once I get the homestead in order.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-68180783165350053532014-03-17T10:23:00.003-07:002014-10-30T14:30:48.123-07:00Read Face Off for Free!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Face Off is a short story detailing Ray Thornton's unfortunate encounter with flesh eating larvae.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-46850563638608178602014-03-15T08:56:00.001-07:002014-03-15T08:57:40.278-07:00Kindle Countdown Deal on EmmettvilleEmmettville is on sale for just $0.99 now through March 22nd.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963869712337614605.post-3068440601380040072014-03-12T10:43:00.000-07:002014-03-12T11:52:11.797-07:00On A Wintry Hallow's Eve<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>1</i></b></div>
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<i>I love
Halloween,</i> Jake Leerson thought and put his lock-back knife, into the right
rear pocket of his Levi’s. He had a feeling this would be the best Halloween
ever. On October 31st of 1989, four people were brutally slain; two of them
children, forever changing the landscape of an otherwise peaceful little town
nestled in the pines and in the shadow of the mountain. Hysterical mothers kept
the phone lines busy at the Precinct throughout the night. </div>
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The snow was
falling hard, and the icy winds bit at Jake’s cheeks as he closed door number
17 of the Cedars Motel. He moved the knife to his front pocket and whistled as
he did so, walking into town. </div>
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Third Street was
filled with joyful cheers from young children. Leerson caressed the knife in
his pocket, then took it out and into his hand.</div>
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He trailed a
group of ten year olds for a block and a half before they noticed the man
behind them. The children quickened their paces a bit, then ran, rounding the
corner of the grade school. Jake was disappointed to see the school was open
for some sort of carnival, offering the little shits safe haven. </div>
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<i>Onward.</i></div>
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Jake continued
until he came upon a fifteen year old boy egging cars. His knife made a
snapping sound as it locked into place. The happy little egger turned only to
catch a knife in the forehead. A four inch flap of skin hung down over his
eyes. Jake slit his throat before he could scream or even think of it. </div>
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Leerson dragged
the boy out of the street and into the hedges, then folded the bloody knife,
returning it to the security of his own pocket.</div>
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His hands were
cold, crossing Second Street and towards GMC realty. Only the office manager
was there, so Leerson walked in.</div>
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“What can I do
for ya’, sir?” asked the gray haired man and smiled.</div>
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The smile faded
when Jake produced the knife. The old man turned to run but tripped over the
chair behind him. Leerson picked the small, balding man up off the floor with
his left hand and pressed the knife to his throat. The little man began to
plead for his life when he became entranced with Jake’s dark green eyes.
Leerson pushed the knife hard into the man’s throat, and warm blood began to
spurt. Jake grabbed the dead man’s gloves and turned out the lights.</div>
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His hands were
warm now against the biting winds. <i>Next victim,</i> Leerson thought and
walked towards uncharted territory. On Second Street, Jake came upon Collin
Johnson and his father, Larry. His knife resisted opening now, for it was
encrusted with dried blood. Neither Collin nor his father heard the knife, or
Jake’s footsteps behind them. But when the knife went into Larry’s left
eye——they did hear that. <i>Pop!</i> </div>
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Little Collin
was too terrified to do much of anything but just stand there and gape at what
was happening. Jake cut Larry’s throat, just above the Adam’s apple, silencing
his <i>very</i> vocal objections. The Adam’s apple hung by a thin piece of
skin. Larry stumbled and then fell forward to the cold pavement—dead.
Momentarily, Jake felt sick to his stomach, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">but
it passed</i>. </div>
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Collin couldn’t
move, frozen by terror; Leerson took it to his advantage and slashed the boy
across the cheek. Now Jake heard what the boy’s lungs had held back before.</div>
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<i>“HEEEELLLPPP!!!!!!“</i>
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“<i>Jesus, this
kid can scream,</i>” Jake thought. He plunged the knife deep into the seven
year old’s chest... </div>
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“That’ll learn
ya,“ Jake said almost conversationally. Collin said a little prayer in his head
and he died. Several people had seen his face through their windows as he
passed beneath the street lights. Soon the place would be swarming with cops. </div>
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<i>It might be
time to play inside…</i></div>
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Mark Woods
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creaking stairs to his bedroom, where his wife Keri was already fast asleep.
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<i>Hello? 1970's
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Jake Leerson silently
stepped in through the unlocked front door of the Woods’ home. Leerson stepped
quietly and carefully across the carpet of the living room until he came to a
sleeping Brian’s room. The small, eight year old boy slept on his stomach,
mouth wide open, and only half way covered by his thick, down comforter. He
looks so peaceful, Jake thought, and drew out his knife once again. <i>Service
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Mark snapped
awake hearing footsteps downstairs and went for the .357 magnum in the top
drawer of his nightstand. He loaded six hollow point shells into the cylinder
and grabbed a handful more for good measure. Mark walked to the extreme right
side of the staircase, where they creaked a little less, though he wouldn’t
have been surprised had the intruder heard the sound of Mark’s heart beating
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bedside. Mark ran down the staircase now, not caring if the whole world heard
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Thunderous
footsteps prompted Jake to rush out of Brian’s bedroom and lay wait aside the
doorway of the stairs. Mark leapt right into the knife which was waiting for
him at the last step. Luckily, the knife entered his abdomen at such an angle,
as to do no serious internal damage. Mark fell to the carpeted floor and
trained his pistol on Leerson. The first shot hit its mark into Jake’s left
shoulder. Flesh exploded around the wound spewing blood generously on freshly
painted walls. The knife dropped from Leerson’s hand, and he ran with his right
hand cupped over his shoulder. The sound of the .357 shook the house once
again. This time the shot went into Jake's lower back, passing through his
stomach, blood and intestine splashed across the front door. For Jake Leerson,
Halloween was over. </div>
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for his son’s room where he found Brian unharmed, standing up on his bed. Mark
Woods held his son in his arms and he cried.<br />
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it happens. Solar flares that make the Carrington Event look like
child's play, wash the world in blinding, white light and all at once,
the world as we know it comes to a stop. Powerful EMP blasts knock out
the grid worldwide as the sun continues its hellacious flares for nearly
24 hours.
Terry takes to the road on foot, meeting every manner of calamity on his
250 mile sojourn home to his sister Katherine and
her two children; Jonathan and Tabitha. They're the only family Terry has
left and family means everything, particularly now.
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Getting reviews is kind of like levitating a heavy rock with a leaf blower, or wrestling a cougar. It's hard. That's why I am offering five free kindle downloads of Emmettville. I ask that you write an honest review within <u>3 weeks</u> if you are a winner. If you're not a fan of the horror genre or you shudder at profanity, blasphemy and violence, then this book is not for you and we'll probably <i>both</i> be happier if you don't enter. <br />
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sat shivering at her desk. The furnace was broken; it was just 42 degrees in
the office. Karen started early, and could have messaged her, but she didn’t.
Chris got the memo. He was working from home today. Anna had clearly gotten the
memo. She walked in dressed in her expensive snowmobile gear and looked like a
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Oh
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Well
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Nope…”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Oh
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Natalie
would have run to the hardware store and bought a space heater if it were an
option, but the old wiring in the building wouldn’t take it. Anytime they
plugged in anything with a draw larger than that of a fan, the fuses blew. So
she sat, and she suffered, but she tried not to let them see her shiver.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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didn’t get a lot of work done that day but felt oddly satisfied with that fact.
They deserved no work from her if they could not even provide heat on a cold
day. No heat, no work. She did get a lot of thinking time in though. Her mind
wandered from topic to topic, but eventually it settled on one; <i>was Kevin
becoming more like her father?</i> She hoped not.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(c) Rusty Henrichsen 2013 </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was Kevin’s favorite time of year. The leaves were changing and the hot summer
heat had faded meaning perfect temperatures for working outside. He sat on the
tailgate and watched the river lazily flow, enjoying a hot cup and a smoke.
Vern and Troy pulled in about five minutes later and hopped out of an old,
white Econoline. They were arguing over last night’s game, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chiefs</i> vs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Packers</i>, and
Vern threatened Troy with a long walk home after work if he didn’t shut the
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Fine,
whatever,” Troy said, “Either one of you assholes wanna buy a gun?”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Boys
love guns so Kevin and Vern gave Troy their rapt attention…</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s
my Glock <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">17</i>, two hundred an’ fifty
bucks.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Why
you selling it?” Kevin asked.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
just need the money. Hell, I can’t afford to shoot it anyhow… Plus, this way I
can be sure I don’t shoot the ex,” Troy chuckled. He was only half kidding. The
wife and he had had a pretty nasty split a few years back. It still came up
fairly regular in conversation. Kevin didn’t really know all the details, but
he knew the important one; <i>Troy hated that fuckin’ bitch.</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kevin
couldn’t necessarily afford a pistol right now, and Natalie would be pissed…but
that didn’t usually stop him from pulling out his wallet and it didn’t stop him
today either. It was a goddam Glock, man! How was he expected to resist such an
item at such a price? Maybe he would just keep it under the seat of the pickup
for the time being…at least until he could come up with a better back story…</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
work, still at the job site, Kevin knocked off a handful of beers so he would
have something to shoot at. He liked the weight of the pistol in his hand. It
was well balanced and it shot true. He was so delighted in fact, he had to have
a few more brews to celebrate. Before he had lost his ass in Sandpoint, he had
quite a gun collection. He had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AK’s</i>,
an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AR15,</i> pistols of every caliber,
hunting rifles, and few old collectibles too. It felt good to shoot again and
he wished he could share it with Natalie. She didn’t really like guns though
which baffled him to no end. Nothing beats blasting the shit outta stuff and if
she would just try it; he knew she would like it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(c) Rusty Henrichsen 2013 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Solemn,
Natalie walked through the door of their home, a 1930’s Bungalow, a few miles
outside of Emmett on the Old Black Canyon Highway. The five acres it sat on and
the mature trees offered a nice level of privacy. It was a cute little place,
with ornate details, lots of built-ins, a beautiful old growth, fir floors. It
was just a rental, but Natalie loved it as her own. It was always clean and she
kept it <i>just so. </i>The flowers were all dead now, down for their winter
naps, but Natalie had a quite a green thumb. During the fair weather months,
their quaint little cottage and beautifully landscaped yard could appear on the
cover of Better Homes & Gardens. As lovely as it was, financially it was a
bit of a stretch at eleven hundred a month plus all the utilities. Kevin could
be happy living in a single wide out in the weeds, but Natalie liked nice
things; so that was that.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kevin
was drinking Coors on the couch when Natalie entered. He was almost afraid to
ask, but as was customary, “How was your day, Hun?” Natalie just shook her
head, put down her keys and shrugged off her purse. She looked absolutely
defeated, like a stray, injured dog out in the cold.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Babe,
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I’m
trying, Kevin, but not until I have another job,” was always her reply.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Nat,—NO
job that pisses on your whole day and sends you to the pillow in tears is worth
it, and Bolts-Inc. sure as hell ain’t worth it.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Don’t
you think I know that, Kevin?! I cannot quit until I find another job!”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
understand that, babe, but c’mon! It ain’t worth it!”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“You
don’t understand, Kevin. It’s so easy for you to say, we’ll be okay, but you’ve
said that before and we wound up living in fucking van at the tail end of winter!
Or do you not remember?——Well <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I</i>
remember, and I’m not living in in a goddam van again, <i>EVER</i>. We are
barely getting by! There is no way on God’s green earth I can quit my job, and
we will be okay in any way, shape or form! Jesus, you just need to grow up.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Fuckin’
whatever, Natalie, I guess this conversation is over.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“You
think?!” She rushed to the bedroom in tears, anxiety and panic her companions.
Kevin remained on the couch with Miss Coors and she soothed him. He wished Nat
could just chill. Have a beer or whatever and chill the fuck out. She was
always so stressed and the bigger part of that was that crappy job.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Natalie
cried into her pillow, seeing no way out… no-way-out. She could call her
parents and ask for money, but even if they gave it, the price was way too
high. The lecturing, the, I told you so, and the blow to her pride. She just
could not face that right now. Amy Ward had always forced her daughter to
grovel in the past while Dean bellowed his drunken conjectures in the
background. No, no thank you very much, not happening. What sick satisfaction
did her mother derive from breaking Natalie down anyway?? Natalie suspected it
was a simple case of, shit runs downhill. Of course it does. These days she
would rather step aside than be buried in their waste....</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Natalie
got to work at 7:15 and prepped her soul for another blightful day. Karen’s red
PT Cruiser with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">faux</i> wood
paneling and ridiculous vanity plates, “HAWT1,” was already there. How Karen
Akers could justify labeling herself as <i>hawt</i>, was waaaay beyond Natalie.
Karen wore a cheap home perm job, red with gray roots, and bright green eye
shadow. She wore buckets of foundation trying to cover up her pock marked,
pasty face. It was a fat face too. Sort of like Miss Piggy’s.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Shit...”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
walked past the other cars, through the pothole riddled parking lot toward the
entrance of her discontent. Bolts-Inc. was a well weathered, single story,
brick shit hole in the industrial district of Emmett, Idaho. Most of the mortar
between the bricks was gone or falling out and the glass in the door was
cracked, just as it was the day that Natalie had started. She pushed the door
open, holding her breath and squeezing her coffee mug a bit tighter, though she
didn’t realize it. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Onward
to the slaughter, my child. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
shivered and swore it was colder inside than out. The leaves were falling off
the trees, yet these cheap bastards wouldn’t turn on the heat. The door caught
her sharply in the elbow, spilling her coffee when the wind blew it open again,
just as it was about to close. The long since, broken hydraulic closer was no
match for any breeze, save that of a dying man’s last breath perhaps...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Good
morning, Karen,” she said cautiously. You can’t be too careful around a
lunatic.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Oh
Gawd, is it that time already?!”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What
time is that?” Natalie asked.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Time
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> to be here,” she snarled.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Karen
was about the nastiest person Natalie had ever met. Cold, incompetent, mean...
She tried not to let it get to her, but Karen had a sharp tongue; finely,
finely honed. For whatever reason, Natalie was Karen’s favorite target. Maybe
she didn’t like her because Natalie was still young and pretty. Women can be so
goddam catty sometimes. Maybe she didn’t like her because she was the newest
hire, but for Christ’s sake, she’d been with the company for nearly seven
months now. She did her job and she did it well; maybe too well? Perhaps Karen
was afraid Natalie would move up and replace her? Anna had confided once that
she was sure glad that Natalie had been hired because Karen was a lot nicer to
her now. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gee, that’s swell.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whatever
the reason, Nat was sick of it, but powerless to change it. In this economy,
she told herself she was lucky to have a job at all, though some days, a
cardboard box in an alley didn’t sound all bad...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
walked past the viper’s desk and to her own, press board with a dark, wood
patterned laminate that was chipping away. She sat down in that worn out chair
that squeaked with every movement or when it rolled. It was bound together with
duct tape and screws, and it leaned slightly to the right. She just knew that
this chair was going to wind up putting her in a chiropractor’s office one of
these days. Flickering, overhead fluorescent fixtures cast light on her
workspace which made it feel all the more like a sanitarium. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hallelujah,
another fine day in Hell.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Theirs
was the office that supported the northwest division of Bolts-Inc.com, a
fastener company and industrial supply. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Welcome to Bolts-Inc.com,
your One Stop Industrial Source! With over 350,000 different products offered,
our customers save time and money. You’ll find our products are in stock and
ready to be shipped, same day when your order is placed before 3pm PST. From
bolts and fasteners of every variety, hand tools, power tools, to safety and
shop supplies; we have everything needed for industrial and construction
projects! Bolts-Inc.com backs every product we sell with exceptional service
from ordering to delivery. We look forward to becoming your One Stop Industrial
Source!”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Natalie
wrote that blurb, but what she really thought was, “Bolts-Inc.com, a soul
sucking shit hole run by malevolent bastards.” It had a much nicer ring to it
in her opinion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Good
morning, Natalie; good morning, Karen,” Anna chimed, walking in through the
door.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Karen
merely grunted and Natalie returned the salutation, though she did not feel the
<i>good morning</i> in any way, shape or form. In fact, it was another horrible
morning; APO reports, P&L, check runs, invoicing, and an ungodly heaping of
abuse. Sometimes she wished that old bat would just keel over. <i>Maybe one of
these days..... </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
would be at the coffee pot, ripping on Natalie for this or that and just
generally being a nasty witch. All of a sudden, the Good Lord above would just
strike her dead with a massive heart attack or something, maybe even something
worse... Coffee cup drops from her hands and shatters onto the cold concrete,
she clutches her soulless chest, with a seized expression on her wretched face,
falls hard and smashes her ugly cake hole on the counter and then it’s finally
over... Blood pours and most of her teeth lie scattered on the floor... Maybe
her foot goes on twitching for a while... The thought put a smile on her face,
but she felt a little guilty wearing it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anna
interrupted Natalie’s bliss and began her customary babblings about shoes,
shopping and her boyfriend or whatever. Natalie had to get out of here. The
wicked witch of the Northwest on one side and a bobble headed floozy on the
other. “Lord, help me,” went through her mind on a never ending loop most days.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Natalie!
Where is that APO!! NOW!”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">...TPS
report anyone?...</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Kill
me faster,” Natalie murmured...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(c) Rusty Henrichsen 2013 </span></div>
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