“I am your conscience,” wheezed the delivery man. She forced a smile and signed for the package.

After he left, she shook her head and whispered, “Poor guy, he should realize community theater doesn’t make him an actor.”

Still, she hasn’t been able to look into his eyes ever since.

J. S. O’Keefe is a scientist, trilingual translator and writer. His short stories and poems have been published in Everyday Fiction, Roi Faineant, 101 Words, Spillwords, ScribesMICRO, 50WS, AntipodeanSF, Friday Flash Fiction, Spirit Fire Review, Medium, Paragraph Planet, WENSUM, 6S, Satire, MMM, etc.