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Lonely in New York

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Sophie looked out the window of her penthouse apartment and marvelled at the beautiful sight of New York at night. She could sense the city pulsating with power, bristling with activity. She was now so very close to centres of worldwide financial and cultural authority. As C.F.O of Baroness Inc., she now had to have an apartment here. Sadly, that meant she was far away from all of his friends, family, and colleagues. Now it was just her, all alone in this massive luxurious apartment. Sophie did not have time to brood on her solitude, she had a guest coming. David Frostburn, a well-connected wall street broker, was coming over for dinner. The man was a boorish lout with the sensibility of a wild pig and the worldview of a minor character from Mad Men, but thanks to connections made during his years as a frat boy at Princeton, he was an invaluable source. Sophie had been trying to get a proper meeting with him at her office for weeks, but he had always blown her off. Apparently being

Karl’s Big Interview

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Karl’s Big Interview After months and months of constant rejection, Karl had finally gotten a job interview. The plucky 22-year-old Swede, eager to enter the professional world, nervously sat in the waiting room of the Stockholm office of Baroness Inc. He looked around the very modern office, noticing how practically every employee was a woman. Karl did not care about that, he was a modern man, a true feminist. What did seem to bewilder him though was that all the women in the office was exceptionally beautiful, with long legs and bountiful breasts, dressed in stylish shiny outfits. It seemed so strange to Karl, was there a dress code here. If so, it seemed to go against the feminist choice of hiring mostly women. Karl was called up and led to an interview room by the receptionist. Inside he saw an incredibly gorgeous, mature blonde in glasses sitting behind a glass table. “Mr Johansson. Welcome.” She said in perfectly fluent Swedish, her foreignness betrayed only by her posh

Magic and leather

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Deep in the lower reaches of the museum archives, a lowly grad student was searching the stacks. Row by row, Ana browsed through the dusty old tomes, some of them thousands of years old. Ana’s thesis was on Eastern European paganism during the 9th century. Her supervisor, the renowned Professor Elizabeth Connelly, had told her that she needed a book from the archives to complete her thesis, though Ana suspected that it was really because the Professor wanted the book for her own upcoming publication. It seemed the real work of a grad student was to do the scut work of the professors. Supposedly, the book was akin to a pagan bible, containing a collection of Slovenian pagan beliefs and rules. Ana found the book near the bottom row of the stacks, almost hidden away in a corner. The book was quite heavy, bound in black leather. She lifted it up and placed it on a table. The front cover was completely blank, just black leather. She opened the book to find the parchment inside surpr