Tall Tales, Short Stories Unexploded Truths Musings ….pdfVIP

Tall Tales, Short Stories Unexploded Truths Musings and Miscellany from the mind of Sam Morris This Content is brought to you on the cheap by a starving artist. Please consider purchasing my novel: Cold Turkey and the Case of the Missing Crime http://www.socksofwrath.co.uk Contents 1. Vitae 2. Thanatology 3. Surfaces May Be Slippery 4. The Hottest Day of the Year 5. Rainmaker 6. A Parable 7. Orbital Space Pub 8. Narrator-Matic 9. Fired 10. God is Fred 11. RE: Seizures in Sector H67, Planet C 12. The Big Insomnia 13. The Machine 14. Broken Computer 15. Temporal Pests 16. Flightless 1. Vitae I’m watching John thumb through a pile of creased CVs. He’s reading a title, a few sentences, then shuffling them, reading another, maybe the same one, who knows? Not John. He isn’t looking for the perfect candidate. He’s not even looking for an imperfect candidate. John could easily employ any one of these people, it takes no great level of skill to open boxes or indeed to pack boxes… No, John is looking for something entirely more specific. Finally he gives a snort of triumph and pulls one CV from the rest, he smacks it down on the table and pokes at a paragraph with a filthy thumb. He has finally found a CV worthy of his rejection. “Look at this guy, this guy has a real attitude problem,” he pokes at the offending paragraph again, glance at it but do not speak, I know the routine well enough to be aware that John doesn’t want me to know why or what this attitude problem is. This is a CV that has been chosen specifically so that John can explain what is wrong with it. “A real attitude problem” he affirms. “Look right here, he’s spelled ‘colour’ without the U. No U, what does he think this is, a text message to one of his school-buddies?” The way he spits the word ‘buddies’ leaves