bing a fixture (standard:other, 1383 words)
Author: deorah	Added: Sep 16 2002	Views/Reads: 3078/2056	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
a guy who seen as "no big loss" as he slowly slips into his own world where he "isn't a piece of furniture"

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over real well. Claudette explained that he had gotten sick and was 
taking a few days off to get well. and that his coworkers again the 
attitude of  oh well, no great loss. She explained that she had notice 
that he was appearing very tired and he just let him rest the whole 
time. She still held off telling him that the office had sent him his 
work that morning and that it needed to be done by the next day. He 
smiled and thought, maybe I'm not a piece of furniture to her.. 

Sam slowly mustard up the strength to get to work the next day. Walking
around in a daze and almost walking into things, Sam took his time 
easing into his chair. The work load remained unchanged as if it would 
have been a big inconvenience for anyone else to pitch in. His 
secretary and assistant were unchanged in their attitudes. “Are you 
sure I were out for a few days?� he thought. Opening his briefcase, 
he found a number of folders spilling out. Now he knows that he was 
totally gone because hew was sure he didn't bring anything with him 
when he left.. Then he found Claudette's note stating she had caught 
all his work up. She had seem and heard enough about his work that she 
could almost do it herself  in her sleep. Reassured by that thought, 
Sam sighed as he blotted out the screaming voices that had filled his 
office. He just started to hand out folders until  there were no more 
people or sound and he could slip back into his own solemn.  As the 
days past, Sam was seeing that nothing had changed and that even 
sending in incorrect work really didn't matter. Like no great loss. Sam 
was finding it easier and easier to disappear into  a solemn state and 
later a world of his own, where he could choose what, when and how on 
everything. the deeper he sank 

This world., the more of the other world would disappear. Claudette, at
wits end for having tried everything she could think of to bring her 
husband around. She also ended up taking on the responsibilities of his 
job from not only going into the office, the paperwork and conducting 
meetings. After awhile, Sam never moved from his den and no one at the 
office even noticed that he wasn't there but his wife. Except for an 
occasional yawn or nod, Sam had indeed become a piece of furniture to 
the rest of the world as he dropped into his own middle for someone 
else to pick up the pieces. At least for a moment in time he wasn't  a 
piece of furniture or a not so great loss to one person. 


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