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Control + Alt + Escape
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 17 2025
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This started as a joke. So why does it feel like the universe is glitching?
Rick didn't apply for this job. He just sort of... woke up at it. Now he's stuck in a surreal corporate maze where the breakroom relocates itself, the coffee tastes like secrets, and interns occasionally burst into static.
Then he finds a keypad.
No label. No instructions. Just a red glow and a low hum that changes everything.
Alongside Tamika - the only other employee who seems to notice the weirdness - Rick tumbles down a rabbit hole of melting timelines, cryptic memos, and logic that rewrites itself. As they uncover the truth about the company behind it all, reality begins to fracture in hilarious, unsettling ways.
Now Rick has a choice: stick to the script... or rewrite the system.
A short, sharp, and gloriously bizarre read, Control + Alt + Escape is part workplace comedy, part sci-fi trip, and part metaphor for anyone who's ever stared into a spreadsheet and questioned reality.
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