The man enters the building, and he goes to the front desk where Miss Simmons sits, her mask on, her gaze holding a middle distance, and the man pulls out a gun and points it at Miss Simmons who sees nothing just like she’s seen nothing for forty years because her whole world exists inside a screen of never-ending spreadsheets, but the man does not know this, and he yells, “Give me a reason not to!” and Miss Simmons starts to cry and says, “I can’t.”
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