Take No Prisoners Page 40
by John Grant
"And, as they did so, the disregarded Q fell out of their pocket, if you like, and they didn't notice they'd dropped him. He was the crumpled empty candy wrapper that's always blowing around on the ground of even the best-maintained of playgrounds.
"That's why Q's so dumb. He's litter."
"Q" was first published in 2004 by SCIFICTION, edited by Ellen Datlow, and forms Chapter 2 of my novel Leaving Fortusa (2008). Copyright © 2004, 2008 John Grant.