Dot Matrix

By Jack Binding

PROBLEMS WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES?

A short horror story about the pitfalls or ruthless career progression

Larry Hawthorne has been set up to take the blame for a colossal screw up at the prestigious finance company for which he works.

With the help of a dusty old Dot Matrix printer sending him cryptic messages, he begins to formulate a plan that will take his enemies down and ensure his meteoric rise to the top.

ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE?

With lashings of dry wit and black humour, this short horror story is the perfect read for someone frustrated at work.

About The Author

Jack Binding is a Londoner living in Sydney. Inspired by writers such as Stephen King, Clive Barker, JG Ballard and Martin Amis, Jack writes gritty, dark fiction that combines horror, fantasy and twisted, black humour.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jack Binding
• Release date: Oct 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370055333

Jack Binding

Jack Binding comes from London but lives in Sydney. He writes dark fiction that combines horror with black humour. He regularly releases short stories on Amazon, which have received high critical praise (at the time of writing, that is). He is inspired by writers such as Stephen King, Clive Barker, JG Ballard and Martin Amis.

Book preview

Dot Matrix

Dot Matrix

Jack Binding

Copyright © 2017 by Jack Binding

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

www.jackjbinding.com

For Alan

Contents

Dot Matrix

About the Author

Also by Jack Binding

Dot Matrix

I’m sitting in a glass-walled meeting room with three people who hate each other. A plate of biscuits and two bottles of sparkling spring water sit untouched on a glistening marble table. I should be paying attention, I should be working out something smart to say, but the only thing rattling around my head is this: I want to kill Ross Baker .

Kill … I think. Is kill too strong?

Euthanise.

That’s it – I want to euthanise Ross Baker. Pop him on a flight to Switzerland and have some doe-eyed nurse pump him full of morphine. Christ, I’d even hold his hand and whisper sweet words of comfort as the lights went out.

You see, Baker’s fucked up, and at Fripp PLC, fucking up isn’t acceptable. It seems Baker is always at the centre of some catastrophe or other. I’m surprised he’s lasted this long. Regardless, he’s elbowed