Surprise, surprise! Another short
story with a song title; this one comes courtesy of Black Lab’s track “All the
Money in the World”.
I wrote this story while working
in a Pleasures of Satire class. At the time I was working on various ideas for
a concept. Among them was the idea of a play where a man was creating an atomic
bomb in his basement because the 2nd amendment. I was also annoyed
by how people walk the halls of building on campus, so I considered writing a “Campus
Walking License Manual” that would be a licensing program for incoming freshman
that they would have to complete prior to walking on campus. I will probably
return to the former idea, the latter doesn’t hold much interest for me at this
point though.
A news story and a debate broke
my final concept of the story. The day I came up with the concept I was having
a debate about how McDonald’s is costing taxpayers about $1.2 billion a year
due to low wages for employees. That same day the story broke about how
Wal-Mart management was asking employees to donate food and items to other less
fortunate employees who weren’t getting paid enough to provide their families
for the holidays.
I will probably do a few
revisions to this piece, but mostly I’m pretty happy with it.
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