Author: Steve Putnam

Gong Show

The Opportunitator is too sophisticated to copy a TV show. To memorialize the new Institute record, he will destroy a steel disc, a crude likeness

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Moment of Truth

Romance I glance behind us to make sure we’re alone. I ask Mia, “Hug me—a hug for a vintage, romantic picture? We can call it

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American Dream

At last! After forty years, the American dream: my first new bathroom scale and vacuum cleaner. No headlights, bells, or buzzers, both reflect pure, functional

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River Park Picnic

Heading out for some air, away from the suits, mail robots, paper stacks, and electromagnetic fields, we take a shortcut through the new wing, dimly

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On the Wisdom of Tree Injections

Financial Consequence of Tree Injections: The background noise of a thousand other cafeteria voices diminishes—The Director and suits sitting at a nearby table talk about

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