Stories tagged “bureaucracy”

• Please move along...

  The desk clerk looked up at him with serious eyes, pen poised over a blank page in the logbook. “Name?” “I’m sorry?” “Your name, sir?” “Don’t you know? Know everything? I mean, if I am where I think...

  • Author: Hunter
  • Posted almost 3 years ago.
  • 4 out of 5

• Evidently Dull

  “I… am a man… of few words.” Bill’s much-belated speech meandered deliciously over his thick southern accent, in slow, deadly tones. Even an accomplished dullard could see Bill wasn’t in a good mood, from the decided...

  • Author: Dr. Theopolis
  • Posted over 2 years ago.
  • 5 out of 5

• Mrs. Emmet and the old .45

  Remember the last time you were kind to an old person? Probably not because… well, you have never been kind to an old person. Jack Reordan was famously unkind to old people. We called him the Mom-and-Pop Killer. As a senior community officer, he ...

  • Author: Dana Preston
  • Posted almost 2 years ago.