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Results of U-Write-It Week 290
"It's always hard to get back to work after vacation," Kim said. "Especially when the boss says I have to..."


Sighing for the tenth time in a row, Kim struggled to pay attention to the computer screen in front of her. It was complete silence here and she wanted chaos like the pubs she had visited in London.

"It always hard to get back to work after vacation," Kim said "Especially when the boss says I have to from his dark hellhole of an office." She had never seen his face until now.

The office door had opened for once in a year. A tall man strode forward, and Kim nearly screamed. It was him. How could the boss have been her distraction in London? How could she have slept with him and not know?

by Kristen Cypret, Granby, MO

...give a presentation on our corporate structure tomorrow." Kim arranged and rearranged the papers accumulating rapidly on her desk. Erin watched unapologetically as Kim groaned and tried to tame the mess.

"How many vacations have you been on this year?" Erin semi-quipped, studying her nails amid Kim's shuffling act.

"I don't know, why?"

"Do you know how long it's been since I have been on vacation? Four looong years. So if you are going to sit here, complaining about having to work when you take vacations every couple of months, I'm leaving." Erin spun on her heel and returned to her own tidy office. She clicked open her e-mail to find a most horrid discovery: a red font message from her boss to see him immediately. As Erin whirled up to her boss' office, her flesh matching the severe tone of lettering, Kim shouted, "Should have taken those days, Er!"

by Elizabeth Greenlea, West Chester, PA

...sweep the floors, clean and mop the bathrooms, paint the walls in the downstairs hall, replace the trashcans on all floors, and clean the air conditioning filters on all the roof units."

Selena frowned. "But you're the vice-president of the entire Western Division! Why do you have to do all that?"

"Seems there were some cutbacks while I was on vacation..."

by Phillip Lynne, Knoxville, TN

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