00:00i work late sometimes not by choice just deadlines the usual last tuesday i was alone on the fifth floor
00:08everyone else had left hours ago i needed to make copies for a morning presentation twenty pages simple the photocopier
00:16is at the end of the hall past the dark offices past the emergency exit that's always locked from the
00:22inside i press the start button the
00:24machine hum to life i stood there waiting watching the light scan back and forth beneath the glass the first
00:32page came out it looked fine the second page came out also fine but the third page something was wrong
00:39the text was the same but there was something else on the page in the margin a handwritten note it
00:45said please stop staying so late the handwriting was shaky almost desperate i looked at the original document no note
00:54nothing
00:54written on it i cancelled the job looked at the machine the glass was empty clean i started the job
01:00again just to see the pages came out normally one two three but on page seven another note same handwriting
01:09they noticed patterns i felt my chest tighten i looked down the dark hallway nothing i kept the machine running
01:16i don't know why maybe i needed to understand page 11 every tuesday 9 47 p.m you always make
01:24copies
01:24my hands went cold that was accurate too accurate i glanced at my watch 9 51 p.m page 14
01:32someone watches you from the parking lot i stopped breathing page 17 they've been inside your car i grabbed the
01:40stack of copies ran to my desk grabbed my bag and headed for the elevator the photocopier was still running
01:47i could hear it from the hallway printing and printing
01:50i didn't stop it i didn't stop it i just left the next morning security found something 347 pages all
01:57printed overnight all blank except for the last one it just said see you next tuesday i changed my schedule
02:04i don't work late anymore but sometimes when i walk past that photocopier during the day i see pages in
02:11the output tray pages i know weren't there before i never look at them
02:15i just keep walking
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