his submitted story “Petrified Man” is published in the Enterprise. it suits the paper: irreverent voice.
timeline
In VC Sam sees Knights of the Golden Circle
Southern trouble makers roil the apolitical into picking a side, but because they’re such goons – Knights of the Golden Circle – from Texas (a proto-KKK, most side against them because they’re such ignorant jerks. Sam mocks them in a great fake speech as a letter.
Sam takes a job in a quartz mine
Gives him mining and is a factory laborer. Utterly miserable.
