Stationairy

An office worker stops time.

Forty five minutes until Daren can go home. He stares at the hands of the clock, not able to peel his eyes away. He picks up a stapler from his desk and starts fiddling with it, The background noise of cold calls and mundane office banter rises into a crescendo of pointlessness. He presses down on the stapler. Silence. Escaping his cubicle to look around. All is still. Delivery guy is mid walk, Alice is mid sneeze, and then he spots the boss man glaring at him with a frozen look of rage. Daren goes up to the boss man and pushes him with all his force. It's like trying to move a building. Pointless. The silence begins to creep away and everyone starts to move in extreme slow motion. Panicking, Daren pushes the stapler again and the boss man goes flying and his head crack the floor. Blood leeks onto the vinyl.