Problems, Problems

You read Marian's five voices instead: Albert's window, Darek's three hazard reports, Bernie's lane by the bins, Joss's six o'clock consultations, a faith forum where eleven congregations had been given one chair. The hall was silent in the way that halls are when a room full of people recognise themselves in a report they'd planned to approve without reading.

"Marian took the standpoint of the underdog," you said, "and applied it to the overdogs. Today we'll do the same."