Outtakes from unfinished stories (Outtake #1): “Thing is”, she said, “we can’t afford the wait anymore. For the right leader, the right lover, the right savior who’ll wash all our sins away. Whatever we need to do, we need to do now. And if that means we don’t manage to do even half of what we expected to achieve, that will only mean we’re neither as clever nor as stupid as we thought.”

“That’s awfully depressing,” he answered.

“Depressing? In the right now, who has time for depression? While you’re up, mind bringing me a cup of coffee? I have to finish my class schedules.”