Old Men in Funny Hats

[forsyth]

It turned out the paranoids had been right all along. There really was a giant conspiracy driving and directing history for millennia. The old men in funny hats weren't as innocent as they looked.

But when, after much danger and excitement, we unraveled the conspiracy to its core, it was empty. The old men in funny hats were, above everything, old. And in the age of iPods and text messaging, kids these days just didn't have the patience. Attrition and heart disease had hollowed out the masterminds and left a shell flexing through pointless motions.

So we blew it up.

Comments

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

Every story should end with "So we blew it up". It would certainly go far in rescuing the more drab ones. ;)