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Lincoln O'Neill has just been hired by the local newspaper, The Courier, to work in IT. His main job is to monitor the emails that are sent via the office email system, checking any that are flagged for inappropriateness. He works nights and there really isn't enough work to keep him occupied, which is kind of how he ends up reading the correspondence between 2 coworkers. Jennifer Scribner-Snyder and Beth Fremont are two friends who work at the paper and use the inter office email as their own messaging system to gossip, complain, joke, and just chat throughout the work day. Their messages are constantly flagged and Lincoln finds himself reading them, but not sending any disciplinary warnings. He begins to fall for Beth and can't stop reading about their lives. He knows all about them without really knowing them. And then, when he realizes he is falling for Beth, he wonders how to even broach the topic. A fun idea that works well, a modern day epistolary, if you will. The dialogue is really amazing - and it has to be, otherwise the story would fall to pieces.

2020-08-08 06:25