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Arthur Colin

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         by Arthur Colin
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All of the office froze as the elavator doors slide open. That was sort of impressive if you thought about it, all 2, 500 cubicles going silent and a pair of eyes for each one rising to see who was coming to floor 329. We all knew it was from floor 1, it was instinct ( well atcually it was because the computer said it was floor 1). Out of the elavator strode out a tall, ugly man, the boss no dout. How they knew this? Well, the 2 million dollar suit was a big giveaway. At seeing that it was the boss everyone got back to their own useless tasks, paper shredding, pencil testing and evening phone tester etc, etc and a hundred etc.
The boss walked proudly through the maze of cubicles, directed by computer ( our office called her Sally, no joke! ). Our office consisted of 100 rows, each with 25 cubicles.
Funny really, whoever the boss was looking for he would probably have to walk real far, who would have thought that he was looking for me.

Sally had informed me and everyone in our office of the boss's arrival by our own personal nanotech, everyone had recieved one thanks to our previous boss ( his name was boss, just like our new one ) of course we al new it was for more control over the workers. The boss's jooly laugh could be heard by everyone who cared to listen, not that i was one of those people. I had more importent tasks to perform, like my office job, paper clip disposer. It was an importent job, our office was legendary as being the most wasteful office for the disposing of paper clips. Now, a unique system was in every cubicle, a tube which sol purpose was to send all uneeded paperclips to me.When they arrived i would send them down another tube to the incenarator, that was a very inportent job if you thought about it. The boss's laugh had finally made it's way to my cubicle, so had the boss.
The boss's mighty (and rather fat) hand pulled me away from my many paper clips,his stupied laugh silly in my ear.

As i was further pulled from my cubicle Sally imformed me that my sevices were not required anymore, much to my dimay. I had heard storys of workers who had been fired, whatever that meant. I looked towards the boss, his laughter had still not stopped (which was downright freaky). I did not feel like stopping him, my nanotech was to blame. No matter, if the boss felt like i was not needed then, i was not needed. He brought me to the elavator, as the doors closed a saw the eyes of the office peak over to see my departure. The elavator was quite roomy, in fact it looked like it could hold all an entire office. It's gold walls and marble floor comforted me as i felt the elavator rush towards the bottom. The boss's laugh came to an end, repaced with an angry growl.
His grip on me tightened and i shreiked with pain. The boss pushed me violently towrds the doors. The elavator stopped with a bang and the most amazing thing occured. The doors opened and i was bathed in sunlight. The boss pushed me again and i tumbled out of the elavator. I fell towards the surface, my mind fell into darkness.





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