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The Big Days
February 2023
1st1,057 Days Without a Resolution
↓↓↓ What Happens When Karma Catches Up With (Evil) ↓↓↓
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Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. It's almost time to start dismantling a predatory...
It's time to rid the world of the bottom 10 in the industry. Never give up. ABDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSUVWXYZ
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Coming Soon Thank you for giving me the material (notes) and inspiration to pen (type) this fictitious story (write what you know).
The story will blow the roof of fictitious companies preying on the suffering of others. The predators lurking amongst us who think nothing of exploiting people on society's fringes. But still have the audacity to send one of those who is being exploiting into the mean streets to buy product (drugs). A special thank you goes out to the main exploiters 'trusted friend' for explaining what the product inside the drawer was all about., and who it was for. And thanks for sharing the stories about the envelopes stuffed with cash. Hello, you have reached Revenue... how may I direct your call?
What I did when I wanted more sleep in the morning, I slept in my work clothes ready to jump out of bed and go in the morning.
What I did when I wanted more sleep in the morning, I drove faster. We must reduce wages from $10.00 to $9.62 because I need money for my nose + steroids. Here are your instructions: Have him follow you to the gas station. Put some gas in your vehicle. Just a little. Pull forward. Let him pull up to the pump, and then fill his vehicle. Use the company card. Don't let Mr. Absentee know. Oh yeah, watch him like a hawk, I think he might be using. Let me know what you think. Watch him like a hawk. Everybody in the other office hates him. They're tired of him. They say he disappears for hours on end. You must plan his days. He’s lazy. If you don’t have his days fully planned out for him, he won’t do anything. Plan his days. Make him work. What I Know for Certain?
What did you do today? I exploited a bunch of suffering people for personal gain. How about you? I wrote 3 chapters for my manuscripts + sent out 6 proposals, wished a friend happy birthday, and plotted my... When You Have Nothing to Lose: Go for the Jugular!
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Government Media Competition Safety Organizations Justice Served A Nine x Zero Presentation DISCLAIMER:
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Don't forget to turn out the lights. I Cherish the Right To Speak Freely
Best Seller. Best Seller. Best Seller. What would you do if someone willfully hurt you and your family? |A rhetorical question.| Canada Rank: 14
USA Rank: 24 Somalia Rank: 180 Dreaming of Summer + Decorate + Hana Reading + Goose
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2nd1,058 Days Without a Resolution
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A peek inside.
Most people in Chocolate (like) Factory Positions (job roles) have to deal with people on crystal meth, heroin, and crack or intoxicated people, or people with mental health issues, or; people who slept under a park bench the night before, with rats crawling all over them, where when they woke up in the morning, they discovered someone had stolen the shoes off their feet. OR; people who are going to give you a life ending disease. DISCLAIMER:
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Dreaming of Summer + Decorate + Hana Reading + Goose
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3rd1,059 Days Without a Resolution
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Critters + Hana + Read + Books & Hot Legs
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4th1,060 Days Without a Resolution
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Read + Walk + Read + Decorate + Save the World + Hundy Burger
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5th1,061 Days Without a Resolution
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Read + Walk + A Message for Putin + Nature + Read More + Hana Read Poetry
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6th1,062 Days Without a Resolution
The matter above is beyond the pale. The system is bleeping broken when a predatory company can dismiss an older worker without severance (a long-term employee - using the pandemic as cover) and the said company is allowed to game the system to make the older worker suffer.
Don't put any faith in lawyers. They are no better than the company gaming the system. Enough said. What's that all about. Suicide. DISCLAIMER:
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Reading with Hana
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7th1,063 Days Without a Resolution
The above matter is about how Greed + Ego can destroy lives.
In this story; three lives. Three lives sent into homelessness. It gets dark occasionally. Previously, suicide has been mentioned. Is that a possibility? Of course, it is. When an aging person is tossed out with the trash, and then they're scolded by someone in the system which is supposed to protect them by saying Evil's representative is OUTRAGED the aged person did not do enough to coddle EVIL, there are no paths forwards for the aging person except for the inevitable end. What do you think happens to older people when Evil forces them to lose everything? Why do you think some countries have suicide doors to prevent people from jumping in front of subway trains? It's now 1,063 days since EVIL... and the story is about what it has done to an aging person. The story is no longer about that older person. It's about the .... hashing things out, in order to get paid, and to soften the blow for EVIL. Hashing things out = blocking the aging person from ever sharing the truth about what happened. Hashing things out = protecting Evil. As for the aging person, the person knows what bridges are amiable to jumpers; unfortunately, we don't have suicide doors on our subways. Anyway, as for th aging person: Homelessness = Death The system fails those it is supposed to protect. Evil + Greed + Ego usually win. They control the money. They control who gets paid. L...y.rs must get paid. As for the aging person, they know the aging person is in the right, but it doesn't matter, the aging person, what they do for the aging person, is maybe, just maybe, extend the aging persons life by a month or two as they make their way to the bank. We all matter, but not according to the system meant to protect us. EVIL WAS ALLOWED TO BLOCK ALL PATHS FORWARD
But you know what, Evil was OUTRAGED. So, sucks to be you. Anywhere in BC 1-800-SUICIDE: 1-800-784-2433
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Reading with Hana + Natural Beauty
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8th1,064 Days Without a Resolution
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Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Do you love Netflixable works of fiction?
If you do, you will love these two fictitious blockbusters coming soon.
Two connected stories about making wrong, right! *OUTRAGED was originally entitled: BLOCKED What don't you get? Lawyers got to get paid). CONTIGENCY
The Unjustly Done by Person's Side Thanks for calling, how may we help you? Where you worked, bleeped you? We can help, we'll take your case on contigency. DISCLAIMER: Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. The Bad Guy Side You're ...ing my client. Great. He has money, he'll have to pay me. Shall we drag this out together? Yes. Great. I will let you know when you should settle, that way we both can get paid! Our ... will be none the wiser. They'll never be privy to the fact we work for the insurance industry. Just tell your person, 'I'm outraged' and you have no choice but settling, or they'll lose. Emphasize, lose. Don't worry if they get angry, they'll have to get over it. Don't worry if their life's have been destroyed. Hmm... I'm not sure if they'll get over that. Not our problem. They shouldn't have allowed themselved to be bleeped. YOU: Pretend you care about your ...s who can't afford to pay. US: We'll get the poorly run companies with greedy owners to pay, both of us. They've got the money. It's great when they get sued. Without Greed + Ego, we wouldn't have a business. Thank God for suffering. Meet for drinks later? Great. DISCLAIMER:
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Pigeon Convention + Jeffrey + Reading with Lindsay + Natural Beauty
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9th1,065 Days Without a Resolution
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Reading and Burgers with Lindsay + Winnie the Pooh
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10thAlmost over...
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Family Reading + Mum's Obituary + Museums
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11thI'm not permitted to talk about it.
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Hana + The Herron (aka: Paper + Mache
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12thMy Superbowl Prediction
Take it to the bank!
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Seawall + Duck Convention (Coal Harbour) + Star Discovery + Hydration
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13thI hope some of you took my Superbowl Prediction to the bank. Or, bet the farm!
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Friday Afternoon with Gord
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14thGreed is a powerful drug.
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Friday Afternoon with Gord + A Burger
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15thIf you want to continue being friends, you need to stop saying things you know will upset and hurt me - and then get mad at me for being upset and hurt by them.
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Windstorm + Hall of Fame + Love
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16thIf you don't have money, justice isn't on your side.
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I'm a Mess + Happy Birthday R + Read
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17thOccasionally, the monsters win.
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Read + Hot Legs + Ed Sheeran & Snow Patrol (Seattle)
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18thApparently, I do many things wrong. Or so I was told.
Even when I'm not even speaking. DISCLAIMER:
Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Reminiscent of every episode of "Dinner Theatre Without the Dinner."
Ed Sheeran (Seattle) + Where I Was Born + Parklife
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19th6 Signs You Are In An Emotionally Abusive Friendship
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Yum + Yum + Read + Yum + Yum
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20th
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Windstorm + Photography + Ephemeral Art
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21stAnother old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away.
Mindy Kaling Soon it will be time to take out the trash.
Don't go chasing waterfalls. DISCLAIMER:
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Transformers + Ephemeral Art
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22ndKieran was a model employee for a company for almost 15 years, enriching the owners and managers. And then, when a once-in-a-century pandemic hit, the greedy bleepers he worked for used the shade of the pandemic to replace him with someone younger. Now, in his sixties, with his life unravelling and depression and uncertainty relentlessly assaulting him, he wakes up one day to discover he has become Ryan Reynolds.
000 000 000
Don't go chasing waterfalls. You messed with my family. DISCLAIMER:
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Ephemeral Art + A Statue + Moon Face + Yum (Tamaly Shop - Vancouver)
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23rdA shocking and heartwarming collection of stories about a child’s search for identity after accidentally discovering at age 43, the parents he watched die were not his birth parents.
15 Sections. 106 Stories. A dark family secret, religion-fuelled shame, and pain-derived humour; cobbled together to make one whole in an extraordinary ride through a shattered life. A unique, riveting, intensely personal, and exceptionally candid memoir. An extraordinary account of an extraordinary life. Deftly written, complex, thoughtful and thought-provoking. Little did I know, fifty-six years later, I'd be meeting my mother for the first time as my mother, at the side of her deathbed.
Not only is this memoir rife with family drama. But it is also the only memoir with a motorcycle crash in Jamaica, an attempted coup in Panama involving Manuel Noriega, a brush with the Dalai Lama in a Vancouver food court, eating breakfast with The Thing from the Fantastic Four, and a two-on-two basketball game with Fox Mulder.
Don't go chasing waterfalls.
You messed with my family. DISCLAIMER:
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Yum (Tamaly Shop - Vancouver) + Forecast Coffee + Dinosaur + Puppy + Browsing
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24thA story about a man trying to find himself after his parents come back to life.
And then, he witnesses a gay bashing. And then, he suffers a catastrophic stroke. And then, he says “hello” to his mother for the first time, alongside her deathbed. And then— Don't go chasing waterfalls.
You messed with my family. He was okay when he left our office. DISCLAIMER:
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Winter Swim + Sailing Gone Wrong + Stained Glass
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25thA powerful exposé humanizes the exploited by sharing their heart-wrenching stories and uncovering the predatory practices of companies involved in modern day slavery.
Not raised in a construction family.
Don't go chasing waterfalls.
You messed with my family. DISCLAIMER:
Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. A Fresh Picture Daily
This Table + Read + James Dean + Cruciferous + A Turkey
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26thA gay man tells his parents he’s not gay and is kicked out of the family. A Memento-style story about sexual conquest and a chance meeting on a bridge. After forty years, a man who has chosen not to speak utters his first word. An abusive husband tries to save his marriage by taking his wife to a town without mirrors. An unemployed sixty-year-old man befriends a skateboarder and then, helps his family navigate food insecurity. Six men in their sixties build a friendship during the pandemic by partaking in gummies every Friday. A man who hasn’t been outside in five years must face his fears during a blizzard to save his family. On a trip to paradise (Hawaii), street peddlers hassle a solo traveller, trying to hawk the fountain of youth.
Astute, complex, gut-wrenchingly hilarious, A 60-Year-Old Man Running in Flip Flops, unpacks the sweeping complexities of being human in a confusing world—love, loss, lust, and hope are all entangled in each of our burning desire to make it home. DISCLAIMER:
Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Don't go chasing waterfalls.
You messed with my family. A Chance One-Way Conversation
A happy look. I have nowhere to go. L, it is fantastic to see you. I smile. Do you ever visit K? No. He's become a complete f-ing a-hole. Ever since you've been gone, he has become worse. He's destroying the company. You were the only intelligent one there. The only one with a brain. The only one who was honest. The only one who treated us with respect. No words. You never lied. If someone was BS-ing you, you shut it down directly, respectfully, and then moved on. The rest of them just lied—all the time. The place used to be a place of solace for the people of the East Side. We knew we were being used. But because of you, we knew we weren't being lied to. Without you, the place is sinking, dying. It's because of... without you, they are screwed. Fist bump. A wide grin. He continues. It's great to see you. The bleepers have destroyed a safe space. Fist bump. The only word I uttered during this chance meeting was, "no." DISCLAIMER:
Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. A Fresh Picture Daily
Stained Glass + Behind the Door + Art Installation (Art Gallery)
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27thWhat’s a poem?
These poetry collections redefine the boundaries of poetry as it takes the mundane aspects of life, turning them into something more. Individual poems and series litter the pages of these infectious ditties. The Short Poem (series); Old Man Amusement Park (series); I Saw You (series); I Am Old Guy; Clipboard Person; Trees Talking; Boats; Trains; Dicky, Dicky; and many more. DISCLAIMER:
Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Don't go chasing waterfalls.
You messed with my family. DISCLAIMER:
Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. A Fresh Picture Daily
Art Installation (Art Gallery) + A Turkey
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28thLindsay’s lengthy career ended abruptly when someone younger replaced him at the start of a once-in-a-century pandemic. His life is tossed upside down, causing sleep to become a thing of the past as he trips into a waking nightmare fuelled with uncertainty. Monsters lurk in his home, threatening his very existence. Lindsay must face the ghosts of his past. A portal opens just as the monsters are about to tear him apart, and he races upward, escaping certain death. With each flight he climbs, he comes across those he’s left behind, dead, and alive--striving to understand who he has become. Lindsay desperately tries to reconcile with dark family secrets and corporate greed to find solace and forgiveness. Lindsay continues living in the present and comes across a new friend, Dean, who is terminally ill—and he must learn how to become a friend with someone dying. At the end of it all, at the precipice of doom, Lindsay meets his father for the first time.
Switching between the past and present, the truth slowly emerges, and The Stairs becomes a riveting, terrifying, oft-times-hilarious story that never takes you in the direction you expect. The Stairs is a genre-defying thriller that will leave you breathless as you race with Lindsay into his past, knowing full well the only way for Lindsay to sleep is if he slays the demons stalking his very existence: crippling depression, alcohol, denial, Jack the Ripper, doubt, insecurity; and escape. His survival depends on it. On every page, ‘fiction’ trips into ‘non’ as fantasy becomes skewed by reality. The Stairs
Think → Ian Reid (We Spread) Think → Charlie Kaufman (AntKind) Think → Mike Steves (Bystander). Think → Cormac McCarthy (The Road). Think → Darren Groff (The Boy in the Blue Hammock) Think → Elizabeth Strout (Lucy by the Sea) Think → Lauren Hough (Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing) Think → Ducks Newburyport on steroids. Think → Kafka on ketamine. Think → Sedaris + Burroughs. DISCLAIMER:
Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Don't go chasing waterfalls.
You messed with my family. Perhaps, I should have kept the prison chalk wall up. It's now been three weeks since it was suggested I fold. DISCLAIMER:
Everything on this site is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. A Fresh Picture Daily
Papa + Baby Harriet + Community
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