NOTE: This story, including “American Bolt Co.” is purely fictitious. After reading this to you, I discovered there is a real American Bolt Co. This story does NOT refer to that company. Indeed, in the text version of this, I have changed its name from “American Bolt” to “Apogee Bolt.” When I searched on “Apogee Bolt” no such company exists. In any event, this story is from the forthcoming next edition of my book, Soloists: short-short stories of introverts and outsiders facing a dilemma: https://www.amazon.com/Soloists-Short-short-stories-introverts-outsiders-ebook/dp/B0B1Z9S9YB/
The text of this story is at https://medium.com/@mnemko/disinformation-a1175d701904. The other two episodes in this series can be accessed from that webpage.
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