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Submitted to Contest #295
*Sensitive content warning: the horrors of the 9 - 5... and a death along the way as well.* He awoke that day with a spectacular pounding in his head, torturing his half-sleeping mind. Emitting a groan like an engine shifting to life, he threw himself from the bed. He was late, he knew, but it didn’t matter – not truly. He worked only to survive, rather than to reach some grand ambition – most everyone did these days; the latter was for the foolish or the filthy rich. Still stuck in some half-dream of a fair world, he made his way through h...
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