Aug. 1st, 2013

oldmanatom: (never meant to save anyone)
Title: Hot Days, Hard Work (Foreword)
Fandom: Fallout
Character(s) [pairing(s)]: OCs [Various, none involving canon characters]
Summary: The wasteland's full of jobs to do and people to do them, from soldiers to raiders, from merchants to thieves. Question is, what do the people think about what they do to make a living? [Interviews with wastelanders, where they "talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do." Based off of Working by Studs Terkel.]

[Chapter Index]

When I first told my editor at the California Sentinel that I wanted to put together a book of interviews with people about their jobs, she smiled, said it sounded like a great idea, and offered to put me in touch with a friend she had at the only publishing house in the NCR. )

oldmanatom: (rigged from the start)
Title: Hot Days, Hard Work (Caps and Dollars - Opener)
Fandom: Fallout
Character(s) [pairing(s)]: OCs [Various, none involving canon characters]
Summary: The wasteland's full of jobs to do and people to do them, from soldiers to raiders, from merchants to thieves. Question is, what do the people think about what they do to make a living? [Interviews with wastelanders, where they "talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do." Based off of Working by Studs Terkel.]

[Chapter Index]

At the end of the day, it's a dog-eat-dog world. )
oldmanatom: (best waterin' hole in the west)
Title: Hot Days, Hard Work (1. Charlize Hull (Mechanic/General Store Owner))
Fandom: Fallout
Character(s) [pairing(s)]: OCs [Various, none involving canon characters]
Summary: The wasteland's full of jobs to do and people to do them, from soldiers to raiders, from merchants to thieves. Question is, what do the people think about what they do to make a living? [Interviews with wastelanders, where they "talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do." Based off of Working by Studs Terkel.]

[Chapter Index]

Charlize, 32, lives at the junction of I-15 and Highway 161, a crossroads between Primm, Goodsprings, and Sloan. )