Soft Targets by Carson Winter
Author:Carson Winter [Winter, Carson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook, QuarkXPress
ISBN: 979-8-9859923-5-9
Publisher: Tenebrous Press
Published: 2023-02-24T00:00:00+00:00
13
THE FIRST WEEK was bad enough. Kev had made sure that Ollie and I were entirely separated, like two children who couldnât be trusted near each other. This was insulting, but it also opened our minds to just how crushing boredom could be. In addition to entering long strings of numbers totally meaningless to us into a huge spreadsheetâalso meaningless to usâwe now had to read and revise the work of our peers. This was Kevâs doing. Something to do with the accuracy of our work.
So, every so often, at Kevâs will, weâd share files and stare hopelessly at rows and columns filled with numbers, and somehow, we were supposed to find errors, then correct them.
Oftentimes, I wondered if this was all a big joke. And I thought back fondly to the night I killed Kev, to the feeling of sickness I felt after. Because back then, I had felt something. And now, I only felt a dull humming in my head. How could any day feel unreal when all of them felt unreal? In the back of my head, I wondered if when the day arrived, Iâd be able to even trust it, such was my detachment. Would I be able to recognize those stupid quirks that somehow made a day not real? Or would they pass over me like everything else? Maybe that was why they passed most people by unnoticed.
Each day I tried to escape further into my own head. And each time, Kevâs timer beeped and forced us into a new task, one that required as much attention and immediacy as it required tedium.
Ollie felt about the same as I did.
At night, weâd talk.
âI donât know if I can make it another three weeks.â
âIf you call out, Iâll call out.â
âNo, I canât call out. Not now.â
âWhy is that?â
âJust stuff. Reasons. Need the money. Who the fuck cares?â
Ollie had been getting touchier lately. I assumed for the same reasons I had. I changed gears, cracked a beverage. âNow that the office is all fucked up,â I began, âhow would you do it?â
Ollie raised an eyebrow. âHow would I do it? Shit, dude.â
âThink about it.â
âOkay,â he said, and I knew he was brightening up now. âAlright, so I think Iâd start by showing up early. Thatâs when Kev shows up, right?â
âI hear he shows up an hour before the drones. Probably to jack off to the melange of despair.â
âAnd of course, who wouldnât?â
âKev probably makes a whopping forty-eight-k a year. Heâs essentially made it.â Things felt easier now. Better.
âAlright, so I think Iâd want to start with Kev, before anyone else gets there. And this time, Iâd do it quick. Iâd have my gun and Iâd just be waiting at his desk. Blow the fuckerâs brains out. Or better yet, noâneck shot. Have that fucker just gushing blood down the front of his painfully white shirt.â
âNeck shots are underrated,â I said sagely. âDo you think, with a high enough caliber, or a shotgun or something, you could decapitate
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