Phillip Spiers (Orientation)
Phillip Spiers is an office worker who sits near the newbie.
Clarissa Nicks (Orientation)
Clarissa Nicks is another office worker.
John LaFountaine (Orientation)
John LaFountaine is an office worker, who uses the women’s room occasionally. According to the narrator, he is harmless. He does it only for a thrill.
Russel Nash (Orientation)
Russel Nash sits in the cubicle to the newbie’s left, is in love with Amanda Pierce. This man grows fatter with each passing month.
Amanda Pierce (Orientation)
Amanda Pierce sits in the cubicle to the newbie’s right. She has a six-year-old autistic son and a husband who is a lawyer. He is too fond of humiliating and often traumatizing sex games that leaves her bruised, injured and exhausted. She is in love with Albert Bosch.
Albert Bosch (Orientation)
Albert Bosch is another colleague. He doesn’t even notice Amanda Pierce’s presence, for he is in love with Ellie Tapper.
Ellie Tapper (Orientation)
Ellie Tapper is another colleague. She hates Albert Bosch and would do literally everything for Curtis Lance.
Curtis Lance (Orientation)
Curtis Lance is another coworker. He hates Ellie Tapper.
Anika Bloom (Orientation)
Anika Bloom is an office outcast. She told Barry Hacker when and how his wife would die. Her prediction turns out to be truthful. No one speaks to her unless he or she wants to know when and how he or she will die.
Colin Heavey (Orientation)
Colin Heavey used to the newbie at the office. He talked to Anika Bloom and now he is doomed. Everyone ignores him to avoid bad luck.
Larry Bagdikian (Orientation)
Larry Bagdikian is another coworker. The man has six daughters.
Barry Hacker (Orientation)
Barry Hacker is one more coworker. He is a widower, who steals his colleague’s food. Everyone believes that a ghost of his dead wife haunts the office.
Matthew Payne (Orientation)
Matthew Payne is a unit manager.
Gwendolyn Stich (Orientation)
Gwendolyn Stich is another colleague. She is crazy about penguins and is in charge of the Birthday List. Her door is always open, so she has to hide and cry in the women’s room.
Kevin Howard (Orientation)
Kevin Howard is another colleague, who is a serial killer.
The narrator (Orientation)
The narrator is an office worker, who seems to be extremely well-informed on lives of his colleagues.
The newbie (Orientation)
The newbie is a new colleague who is being given a tour around the office.
Baby (The Bridge)
Baby is the youngest member of the bridge painting crew.
Whale (The Bridge)
Whale is Baby’s colleague.
Bulldog, W.C. (retired), C.B., Gomer and Red (The Bridge)
Bulldog, W.C. (retired), C.B., Gomer, and Red are other members of the painting crew.
The woman (Hunger Tales)
The woman is one of the protagonists of the story. She is a fitness addict, who starts developing an eating disorder.
Hector (Hunger Tales)
Hector is a proud owner of the Medal of Valor. Hector is extremely obese. The man is strapped inside his flat.
A father and a son (Hunger Tales)
A father and a son are the protagonists of the last story. They return from the funeral ceremony of a woman who used to be a wife to the man and a mother to the boy. Uncontrollable and unsustainable hunger overcomes both of them.
The New Guy (I Run Every Day)
The New Guy is the protagonist of the story. When he starts working on the docks, he notices that he starts gaining weight, so he decides to try running. Later on, it becomes his obsession.
April (I Run Every Day)
April is the New Guy’s colleague. She fancies him and even asks him out. However, it goes rather badly and ends with rape. The New Guy turns out to be not a very good guy.
Ruben (I Run Every Day)
Ruben is the New Guy’s colleague.
Anastasio Somoza Debayle (Somoza’s Dream)
Anastasio Somoza Debayle is the protagonist of the story.
Dinorah (Somoza’s Dream)
Dinorah is Somoza’s lover.
Two patrol officers (Officers Weep)
Two patrol officers are the protagonists of the story.
Bennet (Only Connect)
Bennet is a murder victim.
Costa and the Kid (Only Connect)
Costa and the Kid are two drug-dealers and murders.
Hailey (Only Connect)
Hailey is a woman who survives after a meeting with Costa and the Kid.
Clarissa Snow (Temporary Stories)
Clarissa Snow is the protagonist of the story. She is a temporary employee.
