Daily story, December 28, 2024

It would be the greatest heist of the century. Everything was prepared. He had a collapsible bag stowed in his pants. He had deleted his Facebook account. He had studied the map on the museum’s website. He didn’t need to get away with it forever: just long enough to make the delivery. He would be remembered through history as the man who returned the Parthenon Marbles. Only they turned out to be bigger than he expected.