At the police station, rollcall was over and the evening shift was getting underway.

“I’m wiring this rookie for his first undercover assignment. Hand me the goose tape, will ya, somebody, please?”

“Don’t you mean duct tape?” the rookie asked.

“Not for where your hidden microphone battery pack is going.”

John H. Dromey has micro-fiction, flash fiction, and short stories published in about 220 venues.