Status Updates From Severance

THEORY CONFIRMED

Candace’s narrative voice feels super dreamy to me, like I’m being carried gently through what’s happening to her or her memories.

Solid

“Looking at the office workers suspended high above us, I sensed for the first time my father’s desire to leave China and to live in a foreign country. It was the anonymity. He wanted to be unknown, unpossessed by others’ knowledge of him. That was freedom.”

“I don’t want to sound like we don’t care, because obviously we do, but this is disappointing news.”

“I understand,” I conceded, then almost couldn’t help myself: but the workers are dying.”

Ah yes, capitalism

Shen Fever from China. This was published aptly given COVID19…

“The End begins before you are ever aware of it. It passes as ordinary.”