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  • Jennifer Tries to Leave the Office
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  • Buried by thwww.onedoor.cce Mind
  • Legging Up Time
  • Jennifer Tries to Leave the Office

    Jennifer is trying to leave the office.She has quit her job. She has decided. She has decided she’s quitting her job. She has decided to pursue a passion.She has not chosen a passion yet, but when she does, she will commit to it fully--with her whole heart--in much the same way she committed herself to designing tape dispensers, which is her sole function in this office.The company she works for comes up with new looks for office supplies. They create angular and erratic appearances for things like dispensers and paper clip holders and the handles on scissors. It is a pedestrian place despite ...wlLone door

    Siberian Tiger.

    CN: poaching Snow, the fine powder falling like microscopic feathers drifting in a slow horizontal pattern. The only disturbance in the spotted whiteness on the concrete path being footprints, Shelly's. She hurried across the zoo grounds, a backpack bouncing up and down on her shoulders. It was night, the only reason she could tell was the cold that was left in the absence of the sun. No stars were visible this deep in the city. The wet sound of water lapping against the concrete beach alerted her that she was here. Fingers pressed against the glass barrier, her eyes scanned the habitat hungri...wlLone door

    Buried by the Mind

      She was tired. That's what it was, what Ava chalked it up to. She had never experienced anything like this before. No one had. That's why the world had been full of fear a year ago. She had read about it, read about the quarantines of the past, but she'd never thought she was going to end up in a situation where she was in it, where every day bled into the next and the only reason she knew what day it was was because of her laptop and phone. Even still she was constantly getting her days confused, waking up early, waking up late, forgetting to set her alarm for meetings. She wanted to scream...wlLone door

    Legging Up Time

    Rhoda had got it into her head that she was going to give a new slant to the whole Secret Santa business. Well, in a manner of speaking! To start with, she most determinedly suppressed any thoughts of Santa. Rhoda was no Scrooge, and was fond of Christmas, but she wasn’t even fond of Christmas in October, when the shops decided it was time to start playing I wish it could be Christmas every day and the expurgated version of Fairy Tale of New York. And as for Christmas in April, well, the mere thought made her shudder. And Secret Santas gave out presents. Rhoda was not going to give out present...wlLone door

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