This genre-bending short story caught me off-guard. It’s told by a young woman — a new college grad looking to break into the working world as a computer programmer:

You get used to it after a while, thinking in the ones and zeros. The black and white of a corporate life, shuttled from room to room with the white, fluorescent lights and the beige cubicles of congruence and complacency.

I gave up my writing dreams the second I stepped foot into college.