Period Pieces
By SoulFire77
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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Period Piece - § 1
The radio came on at six with a song Alan Merrick had heard a thousand times and could not have named. He let it play. Coffee and the gray slatted...
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Period Piece - § 2
The work was a game, the same one every day. Alan sat at his console under the long tubes of light with the controller worn smooth in his hands and...
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Period Piece - § 3
The slip was on his desk when he came back with his coffee, face down on the laminate. His name typed at the top, and a time, and under that the word...
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Period Piece - § 4
They walked home the way they walked home, her hand in his. He carried the day behind a level face, the missing hour and the folder with the date in...
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