At the Checkout

At the Checkout
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80 Carolina parking lot, around five o’clock, cool and cloudy skies. My cousin Andrea walks from her car and into the building to work. “I didn’t know you’d work this late,” I said. Our desks were supermarket check-out stands. Our computers were where the cash register should’ve been. K. A. demonstrated how this new set-up was going to work.