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    In the Dole-Drums
    In the Dole-Drums
    In the Dole-Drums
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    In the Dole-Drums

    By James Dargan

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    Dean's got a problem: the 'back to work' course from the Jobcentre,. If he doesn't go, he'll lose his dole. With a girlfriend and two kids to look after, that doesn't sound good at all. We join him on the Monday morning in this gritty story of working-class realism. Will Dean survive a week of CV writing and government brainwashing to get him back to work?

    This is a 4,300-word short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDanny Boy Books
    Release dateAug 30, 2013
    ISBN9781497700161
    In the Dole-Drums
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    James Dargan

    James Dargan was born in Birmingham, England, in 1974. Coming from an Irish background, he frequently writes about that experience. As well as England, he has also lived in the United States, Ireland, and - for the best part of fifteen years - in Warsaw, Poland, his home from home from home.

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      In the Dole-Drums - James Dargan

      IN THE DOLE-DRUMS

      Copyright © 2013 by James Dargan

      Published by Danny Boy Books

      Book cover designed by Anna Kaldus

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

      may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

      without the express written permission of the author

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      It was a mad world coz I couldn’t even get a fuckin’ job and the government wanted to stop me dole. I wanted one, mind ya – yeah, it wasn’t that I didn’t want work, coz I did. I knew ya had ya lazy cunts – the ones who’d bin on the rock ‘n roll for as long as they’d bin alive - but I could tell ya, I wasn’t one of ‘em.

      So there I was, goin’ to some meetin’ – well, it was more than a meetin’, coz it was a trainin’ session or summat. What the tosser had actually told me at the dole office was that I’d be learnin’ how to write a proper cv and conduct meself in interviews and stupid bollocks like that. Well, I’d bin told if I didn’t go, I wouldn’t get me dole money so

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