I Hope You Brought Enough For Everyone! (16.12.... May 2026

Arthur looked at the five of them. He looked down at his single, beautiful sourdough roll. He thought about the three minutes he had spent toasting it to perfection on his cast-iron skillet at 6:00 AM.

The trouble with the Department of Records was the silence. It was so quiet that when Arthur opened his desk drawer to retrieve his napkin, the sliding mechanism sounded like a thunderclap. When he untucked the wax paper from around his sandwich, it crackled with the intensity of a brushfire. I Hope You Brought Enough for Everyone! (16.12....

"You know, I actually have a 12:30," Miller said, backing away. Arthur looked at the five of them