Sofia Viruly

Be Better

The Department of Emotional Stability and Public Sanity had voted that sentimentality was no longer useful. The debate had been quick, and the Department Chair had appeared on TV that Friday announcing that "another microchip would be made mandatory to stop sentimentality from corrupting us from our present missions". Most citizens had taken this announcement in good stride, and those who questioned it were asked to do so with a Department Representative. No one ever did. The microchip installation would happen at the Department's main building. So, Steph and David had decided to go together, once again , so they had developed a quaint routine to the installations. They would stop for strawberry milk at the Milk Bar, talk about something trivial and small and then Steph would pretend to be concerned about what the chip would do. Steph would usually pay as David had lost another job.