“What happened to us?” K’Fpling asked, shaking his head and looking out the window at a passing cloud of s’pang engulfed a small t’zord and began to digest it. “We used to be a race of conquerors. We had drive and ambition. We moved so rapidly across the galaxy that even warrior races were stunned. Now I can’t even get a re-charge for my weapon without filling out a form in triplicate and justifying the drain from my last charge.”
Z’poor shook her head. “We never should have invaded Earth,” she replied. “We thought they were just another conquered race, a being we could bring back to the capital to serve at our whim. We never knew how insidious their disease of ‘bureaucracy’ could be, how it could completely infiltrate every level of our society before we even knew what it was. We have not conquered them. We have become them.”
I’d started work on something about leeks and scallions.
But decided against it after the first two lines.
Re: 2020
You are soooooooo talented!