Dispatches from the Future (B-list)

Gum Balls and Pirates

Howard Wallerton’s diamondsmile was front and center on the WorldCoresimulcast that hung above the bar. This was the moment that Keller has been waiting for; he had parked himself in the chain-joint over decorated with Jolly Roger kitschand swimming with too-perky wait staff because it boastedsomething like fiftyflat-screens. And heendured the bar tender’s perpetual can-I-get-you-anything glances just so he could watch the broadcast. All this, despite the fact that he oth...