By:
randy gillis
randy gillis
So, I’m sitting at my assigned desk, going through a
new stack of Hillary video captures, and organizing them by the degree of
hideousness of her expressions, from simply ‘unfortunate,’ to ‘dear God, how’d
that happen?’ before I started my day of meme making, when suddenly, it hit
me. How did THIS happen??
I’ll tell you how it happened. I’m a dreamer and this is what happens to
dreamers. All I wanted was to live in a
better world. A world where people
respected their obligations to a society and the society respected its
obligations to its people. Is that too
much to ask?
Anyway, I saw the ad on Facebook and figured it was
totally legit.
The sound of a clammy hand coming down on my desk
jarred me back to my new reality. It was
my shift supervisor, Stanislav. He was
the third person I blew here in the hopes of gaining assistance in
escaping. After him, I realized I was
just being used, which normally I’m okay with, but now it suddenly irritated me.
Stanislav picked up the stack of video captures and
grunted, “These quality, no good,” in an accent I was trying desperately not to
find smoking hot. “Well,” I huffed. “You’ll have to take that up with the
photoshop department.” He picked up the
images and stormed away, pausing briefly to look back at me over his broad
shoulder. “See you in break room?” he
sheepishly asked. “Okay,” I surrendered,
“but this is the last time.” His smile
practically curled around his left ear as he continued to the photoshop
department. There’s nothing hotter than
a bottom who doesn’t know he’s a bottom yet.
When I first arrived here, they tested me to see where
I would be of most use. They asked me
what I thought of the 3 branches of American government, so naturally, I wound
up in the snarky memes division of the propaganda department with rather
forceful instructions to re-channel some of that bitterness to a more
‘appropriate’ target, with a ‘greater goal’ in mind. That, or I could choose an option lifted
right out of SAW VI.
So, I did what I had to do. To survive.
The morning conference with Stanislav and my fellow
propagandists was going per usual for a Monday.
Blah, blah, blah…more Jesus, more flags, more football….blah, blah,
blah. Then, unexpectedly, Stanislav
announces the new propagandist of the month.
Yours truly. I can’t say I was
surprised. After all, I was the one who
coined the phrase “HIGH-LEVEL sources close to the (Clinton, Sanders, Trump) campaign suggest…..”. Before we knew it, FOX ‘journalists’ and
pundits were using that line more than “Crooked Hillary.” I was able to snatch the title from the
bitter Lithuanian queen who came up with “alternative facts.”
I was also the one who created the rumor that Hillary
was running an illegal abortion clinic to supply fetuses for Satanic rituals (funded
by the Clinton Foundation) out of a basement of a locally owned Domino’s. Stanislav thought it was too much, and that maybe
this was my attempt to contact help using code (he has total contempt for
Americans, but he didn’t think they were stupid), but when it went viral in
Alabama, he changed his tune. That, and
I’m also blowing him on a regular basis.
Either way, I earned it.
Monday afternoons on the farm can drag on
forever. I was sitting there, tapping my
pencil on the pad on my desk, trying to think of words that rhyme with ‘Biden,’
and wondering how I’ll be punished for refusing to join the ‘Hannity’project. Because there’s just so much soul I can
afford to lose, when I suddenly heard a commotion from down the hall. Men screaming, furniture breaking, and a very
familiar woman’s growl.
I look over and, standing in the doorway was……Patricia! My lesbian ex-wife! In all her military glory. And just like the terminator, she had zero
kills but left a bevy of busted knees in her wake.
I jumped from my chair and leapt into her arms like
Ana Pavlova. I was covering her face
with butterfly kisses when, with a stern, disappointed tone she said, “a Russian
troll farm? Really Randy?” I bowed my head in embarrassment and tried to
explain. “The ad promised a new life for
the disillusioned,” I mumbled. “I was
trying to go organic. I thought trolls
were a root vegetable.” She thought
about it for a moment. “Well,” she
conceded, “that’s metaphorically true, I suppose.”
As I processed this she grabbed my hand and lead me to
the door. “Let’s get out of here,” she
said. I paused. “Oh, um, say, could you come back and get me
after my afternoon break? Stanislav is
about to learn something new about himself….with my help.”