Fanghorn Redbeard was exhausted.  It had been a long first week.

Fifty hours of pillaging, plundering, and marauding had been grueling, but finally it was payday.

He took his check from the clerk and winced: $157.08!?!?

He complained and was told, “Sorry: $3.14159265 per hour is the standard Pi-rate wage.”

Chris Fries is a still-developing writer, working to hone his chops.  He is an Engineer by vocation, a guitarist by avocation, and a writer by compulsion.  His writing blog is StratPlayerCJF.blogspot.com.