“—this is the cutting-edge area, the place where unfettered creativity explodes from within,” Murray waves his arms over his head. “It’s messy, it’s beautiful, it’s bursting with life—”

“Creativity is gray, with lots of right angles—”

“—okay fine, but it’s a blog for a big PR firm, and all of the entries will undoubtedly be ghost written by their copywriters, so actual creativity isn’t exactly—”

“—I wonder if we’ll ever build anything good—”

“—instead of mediocre?”

“—instead of evil.”

from And Then Everyone Dies (2009) Read More >

 

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John S. Cooney writes novels. The first couple were crap, but the more recent ones are pretty good. Read excepts >

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