Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Everyone had guns drawn.

  "It's not fair," a large man was weeping and breathed heavy into the little microphone. 

  "Okay, okay," a mediator heard something and waved others over.  "Can you put it on speaker?" 

  "I tried," a woman's voice. 

  The timers had ticked down to the last seconds before people who'd volunteered not to be in or out had finished up in the Resource Center turned Campus.  So when a community leader was put on the also timed schedule of answering questions about the new exciting thing "this one" came up with and opened the leather portfolio... 

  "Is it a joke on us?"  People with guns turned and aimed at the person who'd promised to let them know. 


  "It dissolved." A person testing the piece of paper for DNA barely said aloud. 


  A diplomat crossing a courtyard fell to knees, briefcase falling on the ground, and a little dust devil breeze picking up a flurry of papers.  Instant weeping head in hands.


  "They couldn't

  "Wouldn't

  "Is this the Continent of Africa?" The airplane radio.



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