The judge addressed the defendant with palpable disgust.

“You, sir, have been found guilty of heinous crimes against humanity. Do you have anything to say before I pronounce your sentence?”

The defendant shrugged.

“The commercial on tv asked me to donate organs. Never said they had to be my organs!”

Kelli Simpson is a mother and writer living in Norman, Oklahoma. She has published work in Lamplit Underground, Rabid Oak, The Avenue, Ghost City Review, and The River.