Terminated for attending my mother’s funeral.” After five years of loyalty, I was fired by email while still grieving.

squeezed between a tax accountant and a dentist advertising emergency root canals. It did not look like the kind of place where corporations went to die.

That was the first thing I liked about it.

Dana was fifty-six, short, silver-haired, and calm in the way only dangerous people know how to be calm. She wore no jewelry except a simple wedding band and continue reading …