Pay no heed, just pay

“You need to quit. Look, you don’t want to end up getting shipped out like Ken, do you?” The co-workers in earshot of Hideki’s warning looked either away or downwards, and their faces darkened, while their fingers spidered faster over the keyboard, rabbiting more rapidly and almost undetectably more pained into their microphones to dictate… Continue reading Pay no heed, just pay

Game Over Decade (FR)

On a rooftop balcony overlooking the city, the two men in polo shirts and chinos sipped their freshly ground ristrettos, the beans of which were flown in by private plane much earlier that morning, without much regard for carbon footprint.  Swirling the remaining brown liquid around his small porcelain handleless cup, the man facing the… Continue reading Game Over Decade (FR)