Tag: Kate
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The Atrium
Tuesday, 14 March, 2017 — Ann Arbor, Michigan “Coming in early on your first day!” Nuriel smiles at Chris as he steps inside. “I have your badge here, but I’m afraid nobody else is back there yet. Can you find your way?” “Sure, thanks,” Chris says, clipping the badge to his belt like he saw…
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At the Bus Stop
Tuesday, 14 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan The alarm blares and Kate moans. Her bed is just a futon mattress on the floor, the ancient digital alarm clock—broken badly enough to look like it’s falling apart but miraculously still running—is perched on an old plastic milk crate near her head that functions as Kate’s…
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Paying the Rent
Monday, 13 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan She was not about to leave early, fainting spell or no fainting spell, although it did worry her. Instead, Kate acted as though nothing had happened and kept doing her work—which anyway consisted of mostly easy stuff: filing and a couple contracts to be entered at that…
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A Little Faint
13 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Kate has just finished picking up the engineers’ time sheets in the room they call the “bullpen” when the faintness strikes her. The bullpen is a big room at the far north end of the first floor with a beautiful view of the park and fountain which all…
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Home
13 February, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan With the engineers downstairs, Haniel was cheerful and informal, even a little funny. Now, however, as Kate sits in a clean and austere waiting room on the third floor, when Haniel comes back through the doors she is serious. Her voice is almost hushed when she says: “Mister…
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The Lost Boys
13 February, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan When Jon walks in, Saed and Ulrich are both typing at their keyboards pretty furiously, although of course you have to look at Saed to know that he’s typing, whereas with Ulrich it seems like you ought to be able to hear him hitting the keys from outside…
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Suburban
13 February, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Even on the day of her interview, it takes Kate five full minutes of staring at her computer before she can bring herself to finally hit send. And then she wishes she could call it back. The two-sentence length of the email certainly offers little justification for her…
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What can it hurt, to try?
10 February, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Snow gusts across the cracked sidewalk and out into the street, adding to drifts that have gone unplowed for hours now. On a Friday night a plow might or might not come to this part of town by morning. Beakes Street is not an insignificant thoroughfare, but the…
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One Last Thing
10 February, 2017 — Ann Arbor, Michigan At a quarter to five on Friday afternoon, Kate Spence at last feels secure enough in her day’s work at the landscape architecture firm of Miller, Phillips, and Smith to allow herself a moment to look out the office’s beautifully tall oak-framed windows and notice that the sky…
The Wolverine Truck Stop and Motor Lodge 