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The Bureaucrat: An Uncanny Tale

✍ Scribed by Williams, Danielle

Book ID
110480894
Publisher
Pixelvania Publishing
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
16 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A story for anyone who has ever wanted to burn down a call center.

Libby Frower loves crushing veterans’ hopes and dreams.

Libby Frower works at the VA pharmacy. She decides whether former soldiers get their prescriptions…or not.

But Libby Frower had better watch out.

Tonight, she’s going to get a taste of her own medicine.

Short story, 6,800 words. PG-13.

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