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Fear struck Dustin's mind as the words shot out of his manager's mouth, "You're fired!"

"But m-my report is only a hour late," Dustin stuttered.

His manager pointed at the new electric clock on the blank wall,

"I said by September tenth, at 7:30!" The manager argued, "and it's 8:33! I expected this to be on time, now get out!"

Dustin left the dull office building, the small office tower looked blank compared to the other large and prospered New York skyscrapers. Stress was the only thing stuck in his mind, he didn’t know what to do.

"Where am I going to work now?" He questioned, as he suddenly caught sight of a booming red banner.

"Help wanted at the national firefighter's society?" Dustin said, as he read the bright banner. A little light flashed in the back of Dustin's head. He quickly ran home, leaving the two brilliant buildings behind him, and his old office whom a little girl was watching him from the windows of.
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With nothing to report in the first day of him working there, him and his beautiful, new, ruby-red, hound dog were sitting in the lunch room waiting for a call. He decided to call her Scarlet because of the color of her fur. He turned his head, and took a glance through the clear glass window close-by where they were sitting. The sky looked misty and bright compared to the cloudy city buildings trying to scrape the sky. Dustin noticed that the light from the sun grew dimmer, and dimmer. Quickly starting to get darker, as through murky paint was spilt all over the sky floor. He and Scarlet quickly stood up as soon as he heard the blaring alarm set off through the

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