Dismantle My Bed

It hit me today… The only difference between me and a journalist, playwright or songwriter is that my employers don’t realize that they are paying me to write. They think they are paying me for one thing, and I am taking that pay and doing something different with my time there. This makes me both rebellious and super cool, and, in a way, it makes me a paid writer. Of course, my pay is chump change, but what else would a chump get paid?

FYI… the dialogue goes a little something like this.

Hi. I’m Riley. I get paid to write.

Really? Journalist? Author?

Temp.

Huh?