Those Gosh-Darn Communists!

A short story about a former coworker’s strange beliefs.

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
3 min readAug 7, 2021

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Photo by Lian Begett on Unsplash

As I’ve mentioned, I used to work in a produce department. There was an interesting array of people working with me, including several “lifers,” or people who had started working at the store very young and had never had another job. This was a union store, so the wages were solid and a person could do that, once upon a…

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.