Scenes From a Corporate Obituary

A Short Story About the End of Corporate Life...and the Beginning of Yours

By John Brewton | Operating by John Brewton

I. The Machine

You showed up on a Monday.

You were going to do great work.

You had ideas.

You had energy.

You had a company backpack and a water bottle with the corporate logo.

You wore them the way you wore your college sweatshirt on orientation weekend, as if belonging to an institution was the same thing as…