Chapter 9 · free to read
The Evening Current had been sold at 11:40 the previous night, to a holding company three shells removed from Skyline Realty. Nobody in the building had been asked.
They had not fired her. Firing makes a story. They had given her a chair and a rack of handbags and a great deal of time.
She had rehearsed a resignation twice in nineteen years, both times in a rage. This one she wrote in about forty seconds.
Nineteen years, two boxes and a bag. It went down eleven floors in one trip.
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