DOLLAR COMPANY.WORK 26 / A FICTIONAL EXCHANGE
TWO DESKS. ONE EMPTY SPACE IN THE ISSUE.
Can I
quote you?
The editor has room for a caption. The person being quoted has a say.
An original company fiction. Play both roles yourself, or pass one device. The magazine and everyone in it are invented.
What Mara said.
The clock stayed on the floor through three revisions of the requisition form. Leena borrowed a ladder and hung it. Mara, at the packing desk, said the words below. The company magazine now wants a caption beneath a photograph of the clock.
“We got it done. Leena ignored the form and brought a ladder.”
THE PROPOSED USE
A caption in the fictional company magazine, beneath a photograph of the newly hung clock.
A short line can sit beside the photograph; a longer one can take its own column.
The heading, excerpt and credit all travel together. The original remark stays here.
The editor’s desk.
01 / PROPOSEChoose a heading, an exact excerpt and a credit. The proof will go to Mara before it can become a clipping.
DRAFT PROOF / NOT AGREED
THE COMPANY MONTHLY / CAPTION DESK
Our process works
“We got it done.”
— Mara, packing desk
A proposed use. Neither a printed issue nor an agreed clipping.
The editor has not offered these terms yet.