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Jaylia Smith

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Dreaming From 9-5

Submitted to Contest #5

Penetratingly emotionless, aggravatingly mind-numbing bings and beeps ring in his ears and sink into his brain, rattling around his skull as a pulsing migraine. His head thrums with every keyboard tap, every fake, enthusiastic, “Hello! This is...” as some poor sap answers the phone, only to be met with anonymous, unsolvable frustrations yelled at them by some faceless stranger, as the air conditioning blasts lukewarm air from too small of a slotted opening in the back of the crowded, lifeless office.  His work continues to pile up in fr...

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