We poisoned Alexander, gave Brutus the knife, slit open The Great Khan’s loins, injected Napoleon with the makings of that stomach ulcer, seeded Jefferson Davis’s downfall, taped Nixon’s inconvenient leak.

Restoring order to a wobbly-top world never sticks, ain’t permanent, but it’s honest.

One hundred fixers. Our faces—each the same.

George Evans is a querulous nuisance from Birmingham, Alabama. When he isn’t teaching English (and sometimes when he is) he writes. You can find him on Substack at Fourth Castle on the Left.