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LOUNGING LIZARD

G.A. Scheinoha

��He brings a reptilian sense to business. Which has advantages other than the obvious: darting here and fro, large, lidless bug pupils seemingly everywhere at once. His keen paranoid sense for predators has averted more than a few hostile takeovers.
��Sometimes though, it gets out of hand. On the subway, any overt stare is enough to send him scurrying for cover, maybe even crawl into his alligator skin briefcase, the safety of the womb.
��The fact he’s been so successful. . . or carries the aforementioned attache at least, has brought out the protesters. Banners screaming he’s a cannibal, has robbed the flesh off his own kind’s back.
��And of course, cold blooded as he is in commerce, even more so, winter really slows him down. Then at his most vulnerable, the company protects him. Somebody usually leaves him atop a desk or against the cubicle wall where he melds with the surroundings.
��They all know, come summer he’ll be back at it again, giving a thousand percent. Guys like that don’t come cheap. You have to make some allowances.



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