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Ben Thomas

Submitted to Contest #219

His hand feels strangely soft and hers limp and lifeless, like roadkill. If is it true that the handshake has a decisive say in the outcome of an interview, then in forty-five minutes time I expect to be lying dead, rotting, and abandoned in the gutter of the gentrified but still ultimately decrepit street outside. Please, have a seat he says, gesturing to a plush leather chair that likely costs more money than it would take to feed a family of four for a month. I slide the several-hundred pound arse-holder out from under the long glass tabl...

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