In the same way that police keep yelling "Stop resisting" because your head bounced when they threw you to the ground, they now say "calm down" earlier in order to claim agitation.

If you claim a person is upset when they are not yet upset, at those stakes, they might get upset. Just so that you can see the difference between upset and not upset. That ploy is

We're not a country of queuers. It makes it hard for us when we suddenly find ourselves in a queue with no warning or explanation. What is happening at the front of the queue? Can

Then to have the very people who made the queue tell us not to queue in spite of the reason for the queue is still being there. WTH!

Having signed a Non-disclosure agreement I am taking the precaution of announcing that the following act of fiction is in no way about my time with the Dump Corporation. Murder for

Breakfast at the Sump Corporation Executive Dining Room was always a lavish event. You couldn't throw a golden toothpick without landing on some 30,000 thread count fabric. I was a

The hallways are supposed to be empty if the Orange 1 is likely to use them. He wants the sense of being alone. Like he doesn't have an entourage behind every door to wipe spittle

Bought loyalty always goes to the highest price. Which makes loyalty lose its luster. More money might make it bright again but then not all that glitters is gold. Raises the price

How far a jump is it from convincing a nation that one brand of sand is better than another to convincing the same nation that a small hand means them well in spite of everything.

We kept doing nasty stories about him without saying it was him. Everybody knew it was him. He couldn't say anything because if he admitted they were then he just told on himself.

The pasty Orange 1 looked at the doctor on retainer. "Grinches get finches," he said coldly, sweat glistening on his upper lip. The doctor blanched & signed a blank prescription.

I guess I know now what I'm going to be serving at the next family funeral. I've got zero experience with lentils. Never eaten let alone cooked with them. A Gatling for peppering

The case was made that to dispell taking a representative's attire as a consideration that all representatives wear a uniform with no insignia. Those systems which couldn't afford

Every signatory to the treaty conceded to the AI the right to blow up their world if they breached any of the Topeka Convention Protocols. All bets were on Earth being the first

One day you're sitting on your little cloud, bored. You look at your drink straw. You decide to climb down it. What could happen? The 1st problem you encounter is your size. How to

Imagine you are a double agent too valuable to either side to kill but also too dangerous to be kept alive, for the same reason. Some reason has you in a tunnel between both ends.

Maybe, just maybe, you really need to got to Toilet #9. "Nobody uses it. Take your time. Get your business done in ease." everyone tells her. Like they said, nobody uses it. Why?"

The death masks on the walls seemed alive sometimes. But only when she glimpsed them on the side she was looking away from. The door to Toilet #9 was ornate yet simple. Not garish.

There was a frog footman playing Door Man for a Day, sponsored by The Quaint Unguent starring Heino Grey. "Welcome to Toilet #9, Naomi," the frog/Door Man crooned. "Babs will be

The Mother of Cosmo liked men with a stylish jacket. In some cases, the jacket was more important to her than the man who threw it on her bedroom floor. Whoever it was at the time.