A boss’s memo encouraging everybody to keep doing the unspecified dirty work they’re there to do.

(from Tenth of December)

Am I saying whistle while you work? Maybe I am. Let us consider lifting a heavy dead carcass such as a whale.

A sinister, little story about unspoken horror and moral consequences that can be (barely) hidden by office bureaucracy. We never find out what’s going on, and that’s excellent.

The Rumpus did a roundtable-ish book club discussion of the book and this story in particular, and included Saunders. Absolutely worth the read.