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Gotta go. Can't be late this morning. "It's going to be a big surprise,"
he said yesterday when he clapped me on the shoulder as he passed through the cubicles.
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In winter the winds rush through the towering partitions of the financial district piercing the openings in your clothing right down to the bone, so I often walk backwards into the wind. Sometimes, in a hurry, like today, I misstep. After slipping on black ice, I just about followed one of the orange cones into the open manhole. It was a nasty fall.
Lying there on my back, my head throbbing, I have the feeling that something has slipped my mind. Did I finish opening the path for the second exit? Yes, I'm sure I did. Must be something else. Oh my God! I think I got the wrong cheddar out of the fridge! Unable to move, it doesn't matter that I am torn.
First published in Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction.