Intelligence. Dedication. Integrity. All admirable qualities, but they’re for saps. The only way to get ahead is to run with the big dogs, and I’m running with the biggest, baddest of them all. He’s already gotten me into executive management, and as long as I watch our backs, or do a job here and there […]
Something’s afoot. Our Managing Partner is even more reserved than usual. There’s hectic activity in the other partners’ offices and their administrative assistants are on high alert. No one is available to switch through the reception desk. I’m the best gatekeeper, but I miss the variety of caring for the partners now and again. The […]
My cousin is the analytical, level-headed one. I have the reputation of being a hot head. Neither is strictly true; but enough so that when he interrupted our extended vacation with words like “Armageddon” and ‘annihilation” it would have been absurd not to take notice. This is the same man who described the […]
Infiltrators shall not victimize our firm. Employees and their families depend on our leadership. There have always been predatory corporations; those that see a business they want and think that it’s just another cog they can force into their wheel. Usually they don’t take the time to understand the nuances and details of running the […]
Cross every ‘t’, dot every ‘i’; everything in it’s place. Then I see divergence, and know if for what it is – something that doesn’t belong. Unfortunately at present, there’s too much that doesn’t belong. I see the symptoms, but not the source. It all appears to be interconnected. But I have to dig […]
Destined to be just another clock-punching laborer as were my father and his, I clawed my way into a different reality. Shunning their day to day tedium; I refused to live a life, the monotony of which was soothed only by a beer or something stronger on Friday nights. Odd for someone from the […]
James Bond, Jason Bourne; entertaining extremes of my reality. Like them, I’m trained to get in, get it done and get out – without getting killed. Unless the only other alternative is getting captured. In that case, I know what to do. By necessity, special forces covert operations are lethal – either for the […]
Hidden in plain sight; cloaked in layers of misdirection. Not what she appears to be; but yet is her real self. Deception is her protection. Necessary because of the family she had been born into and the multi-billion dollar empire they had built. Tired of the charade, she envied those with simpler lives. A mask, […]
Men are fascinating. She needed no other entertainment, content to spend entire evenings observing them, conversing with them. They were so uncomprehendingly ‘other’. The more complicated ones were disturbingly good at keeping their thoughts to themselves and she sensed those thoughts roiling behind carefully managed expressions. Just out of reach. At 5 feet 8 inches, […]
Pounding through the damp sand, he closed in on the halfway point of his daily six-mile run. Craving the adrenaline rush that came from punishing physical exertion; he pushed himself to beat his best time. The landmark boulder near the southern end of the beach drew closer and closer…then he was there. Picking up the […]
