A single light shone

in the cluttered office. The shadows cast by numerous leaning stacks of books and decades-old newspapers looked, from some angles, ready to pounce. Ralph shuffled past a copy of a 1995 Journal of Oceanography, sloshing his coffee into his already-stained t-shirt. Goddammit. His computer screen glowed as if enticing him. The screen saver scrawled random […]