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    New Girl
    New Girl
    New Girl
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    New Girl

    By Jules Okapi

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    Calling the new girl, Lucy, odd ends up more than a tad bit of understatement. In a short period of time, she frees Amber of her inhibitions, her prestigious corporate project, her teeth, her sense of style...and her sanity. A bizarre tale of corporate cannibalism...or a generous sacrifice for a fellow human being? All depends on your perspective.

    Keywords: business, corporate humor, cubicle humor, insanity, hallucination, magical realism, fantasy, dark fantasy, witchcraft, vampire, body-switching, contagion, dark humor, work, conformity, individualism, creativity

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Sun Press
    Release dateOct 13, 2010
    ISBN9781452372082
    New Girl
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    Jules Okapi

    Jules Okapi has worked as a freelance journalist, writing essays on graffiti art, psychology, journalism, meditation, movies and other topics. Jules has also lived or spent considerable time in India, Vancouver BC, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, San Diego, Prague, London, Berlin, Sydney and Swinoujscie, Poland. She currently lives in McLeod Ganj, India, where she writes full time and does volunteer work. For more information about her and her writing, visit http:julesokapi.blogspot.com

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      New Girl - Jules Okapi

      Synopsis

      Calling the new girl, Lucy, odd ends up more than a tad bit of understatement. In a short period of time, she frees Amber of her inhibitions, her prestigious corporate project, her teeth, her sense of style…and her sanity. A bizarre tale of corporate cannibalism…or a generous sacrifice for a fellow human being? All depends on your perspective.

      NEW GIRL

      She stood by the copier, the big one that always seemed to be broken.

      Eyes swallowing a nondescript face, brownish hair hanging in an odd line to form a misshapen halo with a faintly uneven line...she didn’t seem to have put a lot of thought into her appearance for work that day or, really, at any time prior. The neglect came across as somehow more distilled than the usual lack of style of your average office temp worker.

      I found myself wondering if someone else dressed her to bring her into the acceptable range of office bland wear, as if there’s no possible way she could have remembered on her own that two shoes were needed instead of one, or that a shirt should cover her bra and not simply be thrown around it as an enhancement device.

      I shook my head, feeling a soft sort of headache coming on. A faint buzz became audible. I assumed it was

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