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Incessant beeping startled Mort awake. The sudden movement of waking caused him to slide off the worn couch he had crashed on. He landed on the floor with a jarring thud and tried to get his bearings. His head fuzzy with sleep, he began to make out the beeping noise, but his mind couldn't place it. Fire alarm maybe?
That woke him up. He sat up quickly and banged his shoulder on the coffee table. The pizza box poised on the edge of the table teetered and then fell to the floor spilling a single piece of crust onto the floor, all that remained of the large pizza.
He reached out to the coffee table, fumbling for his glasses. He found them and slid them on. His computer screen across the room was flashing. He squinted through his lenses. It wasn't the fire alarm; he was getting
