Three windows on an office building in which everyone is having a bad day. On the bottom left, a sweating man holds his face in despair; a different man holds his hands to his eyes next to a chart of dramatically dropping numbers, and another man radiates anger and stress with his hands on the desk. On the top right, a woman holds an excessively tall stack of papers that start to fall and blow away while a seated man rubs his eyes with frustrated scribbles above his head. On the bottom right, an overwhelmed woman on the phone hold a finger up, asking a frustrated man leaning on her desk to wait while a different woman comes up from behind to ask her a question.

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The Birth of Dread

By Kara Hardin

Friday, December 1, 2023

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