4.

It never crossed my mind that i would see her again, she turned to foam and floated to a different part of my brain, filed away for later while active neurons busied themselves tapping about the gray lumps in my briefcase. A salesman can't be picky.

The job came from a newspaper ad which read 'sales person needed, not squeamish, fast learner.'

Normally I keep afloat without extra day-job fluff, keeps the sky open, but the sinking dry heat shriveled crops turned to dust around me, and a guy can't just chew rocks.

The add was in the paper, the only one i liked but I circled it in red anyway. I bought the pen.