He woke up feeling ill. My ass just exploded, he told his secretary on the phone. Boom, he said. I really don’t need to know that, she said.

Jones flung the pen at Roy. Roy thought Patel had thrown it and made a loud racist remark. Patel thought he heard Jones. The intern laughed.

He lost his job for refusing to play by the inelegant rules of the industrial park. And then he became a beekeeper. Until he ran out of bees