Over Easy

by ItsBees

Briallen Marsh thought she knew exactly what she was applying for; a simple job as an assistant to a simple, busy corporation manager, doing simple things such as dusting the office, organising files, answering phone calls and emails, making coffee. She expected a nerve-wracking interview with a terrifyingly attractive CEO, not to be staring down the barrel of a pistol belonging to

29. Interlude

div style="text-align: center;"em"When I do count the clock that tells the time, /em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emAnd see the brave day sunk in hideous night; /em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emWhen I behold the violet past prime, /em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emAnd sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;/em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emWhen lofty trees I see barren of leaves /em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emWhich erst from heat did canopy the herd,/em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emAnd summer's green all girded up in sheaves /em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emBorne on the bier with white and bristly beard, /em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emThen of thy beauty do I question make, /em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emThat thou among the wastes of time must go,/em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emSince sweets and beauties do themselves forsake/em/div
div style="text-align: center;"emAnd die as fast as they see others grow; /em/div
div style="text-align: center;"em And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence/em/div
div style="text-align: center;"em Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence."/em/div
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p style="text-align: right;"em- William Shakespeare/em/p