1. The Hook
Mark locked his print shop for the last time. Just twelve months earlier, his presses ran until midnight—hospital orders, school contracts, restaurant menus. Now, a “For Lease” sign hung in the window.
“I never thought it’d end like this,” he told Jake, his last remaining employee.
Jake avoided his eyes. “We did everything right. We worked hard, played fair.”
“That’s the problem,” Mark said quietly. “The game was never fair.”
A large healthcare corporation consolidated regional operations and awarded exclusive . . .
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