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Ready for her party, her disastrous ombré flowing in sculpted waves around her shoulders, Bunny raced down I-10 until she reached the industrial zone east of Houston, after which the tall towers rose up like Oz. The afternoon sun gleamed off the black mirrored windows of the soaring structures, sle…

For Texas, there was something sleek and slightly fey about him, what she and her college roommates might have called metrosexual in years past.

Around the table the women of the admin pool talked about the engineers, their primary antagonists as well as the main source of frisson in the office

Bunny had even come to love the long Repro nights and their time-and-a-half pay, the way she imagined an athlete would love an away game at a distant stadium. When she looked at her bank account every two weeks and saw that $1,072 was deposited there, she felt a miserly happiness. She spent money o…

Maryellen spoke again after a few minutes. “Sue found out she had some kind of inner ear thing, vertigo. She had to quit.” She turned down Poirot. “I felt so bad for her; she was devastated. But then she did this travel-booking certificate program they had instead, and she ended up managing a high-…