I agree with everything that has been posted above. I especially agree with Nicole's incisive observation:
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When you post, do you let out this evil laugh because you know how we're all going to feel after we read it???
This story just keeps getting better and better. Tension, angst, and desperation. Oh my! The line:
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God! He wanted to march over and punch a hole straight through the wall of the building. But that would achieve nothing.
Is very well phrased. It shows the frustration and desperation that is creeping up on Clark, despite his best efforts to keep it under control.
Coincidentally, I would bet that that line also describes how some of the FoLCs out there feel after reading each section of this story. Naturally, I mean that in the best possible manner.

"But my experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."

-Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"