It may seem harsh to call other people stupid, and even politically incorrect (if that is still a thing), but I am heading into the devil’s den of dumbness today as I prepare for another workday in the crazy world of retail. With Christmas approaching fast, the Electronics Department has been busy selling lots ofContinue reading Preparing For Stupid
(© 1989; previously published as Backward-Looking in an Age of Social Anomie.) The banquet hall was large and windowless, which, as banquet buildings go in the land of Nortepius, was simple in design and customarily uncared-for. The dark and damp interior was carpeted throughout in grass-like fungus, and faint yellow light flickered as a singleContinue reading Nortepius [fiction]
