The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

I woke with the taste of iron in my mouth. The fluorescent lights hummed a low, sick note above my desk. It was 6:00 AM. The office was empty, save for the cleaning crew’s distant vacuum and the hum of the servers in the back room. I am a Senior Data Analyst. My job is to find anomalies. To spot the lie in the numbers. Today, the numbers were lying. The file was on my screen. A simple payroll...

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