Clearance Casualties

Corporate Horror – New Weird – Dark Comedy What if the employee handbook became your only weapon against the impossible? Arthur Pendelton has survived twelve years as an assistant floor manager at Plaza Outfitters by following every company policy, every safety regulation, and every operational procedure to the letter. When closing time arrives one ordinary evening, the mannequins begin to move. Their fiberglass bodies split open, leaking amber resin. Shopping mall corridors twist into impossible spaces. Managers transform into grotesque corporate monstrosities obsessed with productivity metrics, compliance reports, and endless performance reviews. While everyone else would panic, Arthur has a different strategy. He fills out incident reports. He cites OSHA regulations. He applies clearance stickers. He categorizes monsters by SKU. Inside a nightmarish shopping mall where bureaucracy has become a living organism, following company policy may be the only thing standing between civilization and complete collapse. Clearance Casualties is a surreal blend of Corporate Horror, New Weird Fiction, Liminal Space Horror, Retail Satire, and Dark Comedy, perfect for readers who enjoy absurd workplace horror, unsettling malls, bizarre monsters, and deadpan humor wrapped inside atmospheric psychological terror. Sometimes the apocalypse doesn't arrive with screaming. Sometimes it arrives five minutes before closing.