The crack of noon
Having spent the previous day and well into the night diagramming their project, Tom, Kitty, and Phoebe arrived at Bumble Bikes. At high noon the next day, the energy in the room was palpable.
Kitty walked in with a box under her arm. She had ordered a new keyboard, the kind with the loud blue clicky switches. She loved these keyboards because they reminded her of her father’s IBM Model M keyboard. She used to play with it when she was little. Kitty wanted to remember the inspiration for this project.
A short time ago, she and her sister, Phoebe, had started a successful bicycle manufacturing company. Their outlook was optimistic until their father was diagnosed with a rare degenerative muscular disease called dermatomyositis and he was newly confined to a wheelchair. Kitty and Phoebe’s mother had fought a long legal battle with their medical insurance provider, who refused to pay for the expensive wheelchair their father needed to cope with...