(The Simplicity Tales)
The Mayor of Simplicity was frighteningly incompetent yet the townsfolk adored him and would blindly re-elect him for the rest of his days, simply based on his ineptness. It hadn’t always been like this; Simplicity had once been a paradigm for selfless foresight in all matters civic and personal. But time, pettiness and greed, like rain, had a way of dulling folks’ minds when choosing candidates and unsavory intimations of resuscitating […]