
by AsherVayne
A workplace comedy about monsters trying to survive the horrors of a corporate office. Think The Office meets What We Do in the Shadows. It follows Alucard, an energy vampire working in reinsurance. He doesn’t drink blood he feeds on the slow, suffocating dread of meetings that should have been emails. But when a relentlessly cheerful new HR rep starts spreading positivity (and pink donuts), Alucard begins to starve. Now he and his coworkers an angry IT werewolf, a routine-obsessed zombie, and other office horrors must wage a secret war against corporate happiness just to survive. Vibe: Episodic. Satirical. Based on very real corporate trauma.Misery Inc is on AMZ as a short novella
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