My Cardboard Balcony

Paranoia by Belinda Roddie if the probability of eating contaminated beef soylent green is made of people people gives you early onset everything heartburn hemorrhage memory loss stomach pains death death death on a bed of cotton muffling your crying is one in several zeros, does that mean that the little boy eating hot dogs or the little girl with depression is more likely to become president of the United Nations of pepper sprayed despair?

Licking his very chapped lips, Gregory crouched down beside the frayed wires of the old computer monitor. His fingers twitched as he touched the fiery metal prongs, trying to work meticulously with them as his client watched cautiously from behind him. "I don't really know what happened to this," he muttered, "but it looks bad." "How bad?" Gregory gritted his teeth. "Bad enough to need a new computer monitor?"