Tag: Kafka

  • Triplicate

    Herbert W. Plinth, the Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Paperwork Affairs at the Bureau of Red Tape, navigated the labyrinthine corridors of his own department with the weary resignation of a spelunker lost for decades. The air hung heavy with the metallic tang of old filing cabinets and the musky scent of decaying memos. Every surface…

  • Herr Schmidt

    Gregor awoke with a jolt, a clammy sweat clinging to him like a shroud. The dream, thankfully, had faded, yet a tendril of unease remained. It was always the same. A cramped, airless office, the walls plastered with maps crisscrossed with nonsensical red lines. His boss, Herr Schmidt, a man perpetually shrouded in an aura of damp wool and stale cigars, stood ranting about purity and Lebensraum. Gregor, however, felt only…

  • UAPs Jobs Program

    The spooks at Langley, adrift in a sea of conspiracies of their own making, flail about like demented cuttlefish, spewing ink – nay, official statements! – to obscure the truth they themselves birthed. A truth as slick and squirming as a fresh-peeled Scientology engram. These suits, shuffling through the halls of the Pentagon, their polyester blending with the omnipresent beige, are caught in a…

  • From the River to the Sea

    A low murmur, a tremor of unease, rippled through the labyrinthine corridors of the Ministry of Justice. A new proclamation, its ink barely dry, hung heavy in the air. The pronouncement, issued with the utmost bureaucratic gravity, declared the phrase “generic sentence” a criminal offense. Yet, a disquieting dissonance echoed within the very pronouncement itself.…

  • Kafka’s Protocols

    The Tyranny Of Protocols The Kafkaesque protocol isn’t a dry manual, it’s a maddening dance on a pressure pad. Actions have cryptic meanings, dictated by unseen authorities. Just as K. struggles to navigate the labyrinthine court, producers and consumers in Kafka’s world fight to parse nonsensical messages, forever out of sync. The message payload, the…