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Prompt Response | Flash Fiction | Relationships
Beneath a Corporate Veil (with Prejudice)
Do this modern D’Arcy and Elizabeth have a future together?
This is my response to the Microcosm August 2026 prompt “Exit.”
D’Arcy’s morning had been glorious. He had woken up before the alarm, had coffee and cereal for breakfast, and walked to the office. The promised perfect weather had materialized: warm but not hot with fluffy clouds and no storms on the horizon.
Until he reached the office.
Usually, he was the first to arrive, but today, Elizabeth had been there, working at a window ledge workstation near his cubicle. Normally, she arrived at nine, stayed in her office, and was still there when D’Arcy left at five.
He’d received emails from her sent late in the evening, although she clearly didn’t expect him to read them until morning. Overall, she was the best supervisor D’Arcy had worked for.
And by far the most attractive, although he’d kept that thought firmly internalized. Office romances were problematic, especially when the people occupied different rungs on the corporate ladder.
Even more so when one of them was the CEO’s niece.
