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The Display Room

April 22, 2022 4 Comments

By Anima Sahu

“How’s work?”

“Exhausting.”

“Do you take time off?”

“The higher-ups cannot find a temp replacement for me. I don’t blame them. The display room is massively boring and depressingly big.”

“What’s your job?”

“Sitting in a giant room of displays, monitoring the good-evil points of the silly little creatures down on planet Earth.”

“Anyone else in your team?”

“Nope. They tried automation. Didn’t work. Caused huge good-evil imbalance. Earth had to be flooded to balance it out.”

“Do you ever take a rest?”

“Sometimes I doze off at work. Not my fault, obviously. Hopefully, it doesn’t cause another world wide flood.”

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  1. Scott Brian Blanke says

    April 22, 2022 at 11:44 am

    Reminds me of ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ by Heinlein

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  2. Khadija Rashid says

    April 23, 2022 at 9:15 am

    Interesting perspective!

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  3. Meghashri Dalvi says

    April 24, 2022 at 10:58 am

    Loved it!

    Reply
  4. Teodora Vamvu says

    April 27, 2022 at 9:37 am

    Oh, poor future Noah, having his fate hanging by the thread of somebody else’s exhaustion and boredom! 🙂

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