Monthly Archive: October 2010

The Dark Arts – Preamble 0

The Dark Arts – Preamble

Once upon a time I was working for a charity – a major charity – going door-to-door to raise money while pretending it wasn’t sales. This story happened on my last day working there. I didn’t know that at the time; I wouldn’t find out until the following morning when my boss called me up to fire me, but I knew it was coming. For weeks I’d been fed up with the job, milking it for the last few dollars I could pull out, hating every minute of it but needing the money. The Sudden Career Readjustment would come as...