Office
A very short story.
I was washing my mug in the office kitchen when I heard someone come in behind me. I turned around and saw it was my friend Christina. She’s not really my friend, but she’s like an office friend. “Hey Christina, how’s it going?” I said.
“Oh, I’m good,” she said. “Tired.”
“Yeah,” I said. “I’m really tired, too.”
“Yeah,” she said. “I’m like, exhausted.”
“No kidding,” I said. “I’m totally drifting off at my desk.”
“Tell me about it. I’m like, about to fall over, literally.”
“Yeah, I was going to lie down on the floor right now,” I said.
“Oh yeah? I was actually already planning to do that,” she said as she lowered herself to the ground in front of the refrigerator.
I lowered myself down too, and shut my eyes. “Oh, this feels so good, I’m going to fall asleep, like, immediately.”
“Me too. I’m so tired I might never wake up.”
“Yeah, I was about to say—I bet I’ll die in my sleep.”
“I’ll definitely die—I drank poison earlier.”
“I drank poison, too,” I said.
Then we drifted into silence, and we both died in our sleep, at the office.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Aw, I love happy endings!
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
MONDAYS!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 am
gosh, edith - thank you for these stories.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 am
i love this one
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:52 am
oh man.. i could really go some of that office poison right about now..
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:39 am
Thanks, you guys! I’m so glad you like it/them!!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Now THAT was fun!
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Confused if this happens before or after Jim and Pam get married but otherwise good job
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
“And we died happily ever after…”
The Bucket was about God? 911 is God? The person in the bucket was Jesus? You don’t have answer that, haha. Or 911 is the people that have all the money(publisher), the person in the bucket is the writer/artist, and the blood is the work. Something like that…
November 5th, 2009 at 12:38 am
This is one of my favorites. It’s sort of embarrassing to laugh out loud in public, but the other people in the library are totally missing out. Can you please write one about me? I grew up on a farm.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:04 am
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November 11th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
LOL!! Great short story!
November 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I laugh at all of your stories. This one makes me laugh every time I read it because I work literally three feet from the coffee machine and I hear it every day. I’m sorry but I had to copy your idea. Don’t worry they won’t be half as funny as yours.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
DAMN this made me miss my old job!
You are a fantastic writer.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I want to marry your stories. I love them bad.
December 9th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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