100 Word Challenge Week #45

Julia’s 100 word challenge – the phrase Julia has dropped on us this week is:  “There is a real buzz about this place”.  Here’s my piece –

First, the rumours started.  It was bad enough that people didn’t get along; bad enough that the ‘we’ / ‘they’ factions had been battling for years.  Now, rumours buzzed from one dissatisfied colleague to another.  Reorganizing.  Downsizing. Outsourcing. Pay cuts. Lay-offs. Wage freeze.  Another weight had been tied to the anchor that pulled her inexorably down. She woke each morning determined to plod ahead – “this too shall pass”, a whispered mantra to help her through the day.  And each evening sleep eluded her as tears of fear, of loss, of regret puddled on her pillow. – 92 words