Marble Study

The Director stormed into the lab, where I was watching the small marbles roll along the sloped surface. She removed her neural uplink hook-up and began to shout in my direction.

“I’m sick of this! All this money and power and resources, funnelled into this department, and nothing to show for it!”

I watched another marble roll.

“I’m shutting you down, you hear me?”

I looked up and laughed, which pissed her off even more.

“You think this is a fucking joke?”

I sighed.

“You’ve not noticed these marbles are rolling uphill then?”

I patted my new anti-gravity machine proudly.