Small Places : Nick L Belardes [9 of 128]

• Never before has such a re-animated corporate dialogue risen from such a cramped meeting room insectoid. He is what Buildicon emulates.
• Milt Butterlink: As I fall asleep, this is the man who has prepared pages of notes simply to unravel the mystery of the color orange.
• "Team, we'll get a new color though I know you're attached to your tangerine polos. Orange is an out-of-fashion corporate-color faux paus."
• Milt Butterlink begins to look more wooden, like a stick bug. Like five stick bugs all wrapped into one, with large pinecone hands.
• He's got big grey eyes and large lips; his cheeks puff out above a weedy sidewalk of chest hair that springs up through his v-neck.
• His hands don't look like flesh at all but dry and wood-like, as if unfinished, stuck onto his body: lost boy bug monster. God only knows
• what he does with those hands in the Greenhorn Mountains, where he commutes from everyday and lives with his wife and two small children.