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Sunday 7 August 2016

Paper

"Have you got a pen and paper? I'll write it down."
"You what?" His colleague frowned at the suggestion he had made.
Howard kept forgetting that things were different now. Ever since the new law had been passed, the use of paper was illegal. The government's stance on environmental issues had shifted from couldn't give a shit to deeply concerned almost overnight.
"Never mind. I'll just type it into my phone."
He returned to his desk.
An hour later two police officers arrived at Howard's work station.
"You need to come with us, sir," one of them said.
"What for?"
"You know what for. Environmental crime is taken very seriously now."
"But I..."
The officer cuffed him and dragged him away from his desk.
Howard noticed the colleague he'd been talking to earlier looking ashamed as they passed his desk en route to the cell where he would be detained for four days.

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