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Kurt Joseph Pankau

Kurt Pankau is a software engineer in St. Louis. He loves board games, dad-jokes, and stories about time travel. His work has also appeared in Nature: Futures, Escape Pod, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. He tweets at @kurtpankau and blogs at kurtpankau.com.

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Carpools & Coworkers

I clear my throat. "It's 7:43 on a Monday. You're due at the office by 8. Clive is driving, Jordan is riding shotgun, Janet and Nigel are in the back. You have twelve miles to go. You've been making good time, but suddenly a blue minivan starts to merge into your lane right next…