Mathew Paust honed his sense of the absurd on life's ironies during an award-winning career as a newspaper writer, a vocation now fallen into the same murky sausage-making machine reporters once enjoyed exposing to the light of day. Paust's writing now reaches an international readership at Fictionaut.com http: //fictionaut.com/users/mathew-paust and on his personal blog at http: //mdpaust.blogspot.com