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The meeting ended and the room emptied. They were alone. She walked to him and touched his tie and smiled. Say it, she said. Brand, he said.

Lynn can’t stop shaking. I had too much cola today, she says. Doctors shouldn’t drink that stuff, the nurse says. I used to smoke, Lynn says

The office was quiet save for the tap tap of Ms. Green’s nails hitting the keyboard. The sound drove Mr. Orr mad, thinking unlovely thoughts

She called him a skinflint and this excited him until he looked it up. He moped his way through work for a week, just another sad accountant

He was mesmerized by her toes. And he knew this was connected to his getting fired. On his way out, he told his ex-boss, It was those shoes.

It was his first day back at the office since the face licking episode. The women stayed impossibly far away from him. He ate soup for lunch