Redeployment

by Phil Klay

“And you can’t cut the women’s business association.” “Why not? It’s been going a year already and has yet to start a business. The last meeting, we rented a ‘conference and presentation room’ for fifteen thousand dollars which turned out to be an unused room in an abandoned school we built back in 2005.” I paused and took a breath. “Actually, ‘abandoned’ is the wrong word. No one ever used it.”

And this is the point where I started to suspect that this wasn't a series of true stories.