Just after we finished eating dinner, the phone rang. Irene answered. <\/p>\n
“It’s someone from the Writers Guild,” she said.<\/p>\n
I picked up the phone, and heard a woman tell me, “We’re holding some residuals for you. We tried to send them to you, but they were returned by the post office.” <\/p>\n
She asked for my new address, which I gladly gave her. <\/p>\n
“How much are you trying to send me?” I asked. She rattled off three figures, which totaled $116.74.<\/p>\n
This was money earned for work I did on Tales From the Darkside<\/i> from 1984 through 1986.<\/p>\n
It’s not a huge amount of money, but nothing to sneeze at either, and so I repeat—I just got paid for work I did more than twenty years ago<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Do you need any further evidence than that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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