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    A Pyramid Scheme
    A Pyramid Scheme
    A Pyramid Scheme
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    A Pyramid Scheme

    By Lawrence Anzen

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    I was all set for the best summer of my life. The agency had me working as a driver at a car auction, and it was nice cars all day, every day. Then Gary the Egg Guy showed up trying to sell his 'investments,' and then, well, then stuff got weird...

    'A Pyramid Scheme' is a short horror story about a very different kind of scam.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLawrence Anzen
    Release dateNov 20, 2014
    ISBN9781310749650
    A Pyramid Scheme
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    Lawrence Anzen

    By profession an investigator, I've lived and worked throughout North America, Europe and Asia over the last two decades. In that time, I've seen a great deal of corruption, and the occasional monster, although those have been human (to the best of my knowledge).A great fan of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, it was not until a forced sabbatical following an operation that I determined to plan out and finish a novel which had been floating around as an idea for some years. A Door in Thorston was the result. My second novel, The Dam at Hiramatsu, followed in April 2014. I am currently at work on a third (and fourth) novel.Various ramblings, horror game reviews and more information at: www.lawrenceanzen.com

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      A Pyramid Scheme - Lawrence Anzen

      A Pyramid Scheme

      by Lawrence Anzen

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Lawrence Anzen

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this short story. It remains the copyrighted property of the authord and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this short story, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favourite authorized reseller. Thank you for your support.

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      Title Page

      A Pyramid Scheme

      About the Author

      A PYRAMID SCHEME

      Sometimes I think the reason men bond over the crazy things they do in their youth is because those crazy things are actually stupid things – stupid and mundane things – which nobody else really cares about. Hey guys, remember when Joe was really trashed and got in that garbage dumpster and it started rolling and crashed into that Porsche! There was a scratch on the bumper! Wasn't that wild? Hey guys, do you remember when we were just totally out of it and stealing road works signs, and there was a guy there already stealing road works signs, and it was Billy Ambrose who we hadn't seen since school! Wasn't that wild?

      No, sorry, none of these things are wild, or interesting. Not even to us anymore. They just serve to keep us together, the easy ice breaker when we're at the bar, the things we did that broke the rules just a little and make us feel special. And we all need to feel special.

      Yet all these years later, the one thing which really sticks out in my memory from my days as a young man is a thing that I actually didn't do. Not even nearly. I don't even know what really happened. But I do know, am absolutely positive, that I passed something by, something that was definitely crazy.

      It went like this.

      I was the first person in my family to get into any form of higher education. I am not sure if I was proud of that at the time, not even if I

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