Stories

There was a wad of loose paper stuffed into an envelope that also contained Rock's paycheck. He pulled out the check and tossed the envelope and paper into a dumpster without consideration.
Rock was second in line at a bank drive-through, next to the dumpster, and eager to deposit his check as quickly as possible. His friends Keith Brown and Donna Falkenhain were in town. They, in fact, stood beside Donna's car in the bank parking lot and seemed as eager as Rock to hook up for the day.
As Rock prepared to endorse the check, he noticed a newspaper clipping on the edge of the dumpster. He recognized it as a story he had written. After concluding in an instant that all of the paper in the envelope had been cutouts of stories he wrote, Rock debated whether to dig through the dumpster for the other stories.
Keith and Donna were no longer factors in his thought process.