When She Came Home
“Somewhere between Ocean Beach and work, Frankie’s Nissan developed a rattle. A finger-snapping click that twitched under her skin, telling her hurry-hurry, busy-busy to a rap beat. Stuck in a line of cars at the light at the bottom of Nimitz, she swore at a driver trying to make a U-turn in rush hour traffic. She was late getting to the shop, and once there she rushed to catch up, and her day careened downhill.
The office troops were slower and more careless than usual. She had to explain the l...imitations of spell check to one young recruit who took the inability of the software to second guess his thinking as a personal betrayal. He seemed younger than the legal age for military service, and she wondered who had sent him to her, what malign deity had thought it would be amusing to watch him mess up the finances of the United States Marine Corps. Probably the same one that deleted a document she needed, forcing her to waste an hour getting it back. Her staff sergeant, Donovan, was hungover, taciturn and uncooperative, and when she didn’t have a chance to eat lunch and it was almost two in the afternoon, she couldn’t take his scowls and self-importance anymore and laid into him.MoreLess
The office troops were slower and more careless than usual. She had to explain the l...imitations of spell check to one young recruit who took the inability of the software to second guess his thinking as a personal betrayal. He seemed younger than the legal age for military service, and she wondered who had sent him to her, what malign deity had thought it would be amusing to watch him mess up the finances of the United States Marine Corps. Probably the same one that deleted a document she needed, forcing her to waste an hour getting it back. Her staff sergeant, Donovan, was hungover, taciturn and uncooperative, and when she didn’t have a chance to eat lunch and it was almost two in the afternoon, she couldn’t take his scowls and self-importance anymore and laid into him.MoreLess
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