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The Zero Setting

by Catherine Morrow

A nightclub safety coordinator and her doorman circle each other for eight months — until his brother shows up in a bought face and a bail condition, and she has to decide what the machine can't.


**0 — The Dial**

The dial goes from zero to one hundred, and I have never once in eight months of this job trusted a single number on it.

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