Where did everybody go?

For the last week or so, it has really felt strange around here. We are very used to seeing the same faces doing the same things, writing memo's every Tuesday, handing them to Allen, the editor, who checks everything, then sends it out on Thursday. Last Tuesday we were worried, because we were not finished with the pile of work to be done, and were not ready with them, but he never showed up. At the time we were relieved, but then this Tuesday he didn't show up again. We thought he was out sick, but no one has come around in his place. In fact, there seems to be no new information concerning anything at all, since sometime around mid-June. It's weird. Somehow it feels slightly deserted, and not just in our department.

Maybe we don't need to plan our escape at all. Maybe we're all going to get fired.

But nobody gets fired here. They just.......disappear. Like Allen.

I'm nervous. Very nervous.