At The Airport

The other criminals were waiting anxiously while the annoying broadcast was being aired.

“I hope these people are not airing this to make us angry?” One of them asked.

“But they don't know us or why we are here,” the other person responded.

“You have a point.”

As though the authority read their minds, they removed the broadcast and announced the arrival of the Head of State of the South Coast for a peace talk with the people of Canterbury.

The news was pleasant to ...