He was not drunk at all in fact. The situation had knocked the stupor out of him and left him feeling stone cold sober. A kind of sobriety he hadn't felt in a while actually. Even without drugs or alcohol we dulled ourselves in some ways. Got settled into a...

"George."

He knew something was wrong as soon as he was approaching the crowd of people huddled around the outsider. The outsider looked like a police officer of some sort. But not in uniform. It was Jane who said the name. "George. I know you two were really close."

Now he was...

Marc Love stared out the window letting the sunlight hit the back of his retinue. He saw the same FedEx truck drive back that drove by every day at 3 pm. He had known this from his doorbell camera. Now he was watching from home. He had gotten used to...

Jane was into throwing parties. She threw every company party. George knew he could make Jane think about throwing a certain party and believe it was her idea. So this was George's plan. Plant the idea in her head. "How cool would it be... to have a Blue Man impersonation...

The issue with Marc Love's  LinkedIn history being normal wasn't that it was normal. It was that a person with such a normal background ought to have a different fingerprint on social media. More friends. At least a few mutuals with George. But there rwas nada. Marc Love was like...

There was something about Marc that allowed him to get away with anything in George's head.

Marc could do the same thing as Steven and it wouldn't bug George the slightest. The same damn thing that would irritate the shit out of George when Steven did it.

George listened to a lot...

Steven said he never shaved. He just never grew any facial hair. It was like those kids before puberty. Naturally smooth. Nobody actually believed this though because it sounded impossible. For some reason George believed Steven.

The man who turned him onto shaving using a double edge razor though was named...

All those hours had to add up. Where did they all go? He used to think they would pile up somewhere and he would get them back. He wasn't banking on that anymore.

He spent a lot of extra time prepping for work. Not just the two hours on the road....

George didn't like this whole obsession with  third places that everybody was talking about. To him he didn't need a third place. He woke up at home, went to work, and when that was done he wanted to come back home. He wondered why anybody wouldn't want to be home....

The  Blue Man was an influencer he had followed a long time ago. In fact everybody he knew had followed him. He was more popular than movie stars like  Brad Pitt . More popular than musicians than  Drake . There was a time when the entire western world seemed hinged...