42opus

is an online magazine of the literary arts.

2 September 2003 | Vol. 3, No. 3

Story

This is an outsourced text. The authorial voice known (or, for the most part, unknown) as Ptim Callan has outsourced the creation of this short story to a multinational contracting agency whose name could not appropriately—tastefully—be given here. Ptim Callan determined that his to-date successes have been more in the line of business and less in the line of fictioneering. Testifying to his habit as a successful businessman, Callan decided to further specialize, to outsource his less successful endeavors in favor of the more successful ones. Just as a corporation learns to distinguish a sustainable core competency from an expendable resource drain, so has Callan. In his work life Callan removed employees fr