A delightful and morally-instructive little tale for our time, by the One Called Rebecca of Hitherby Dragons. A taste...

The nuclear device is going to go off in less than four hours," says Brad.

"And we don't even have a suspect," sighs Steve.

They look gloomily at the dingy gray wall of their lab.

"Would it help? I mean, at this point?" Brad says.

"We could torture them," says Steve. "And find out where the device is. Then we could evacuate people and save thousands of lives."

"Point," says Brad.

Both of them sigh.

"What if we torture you?" Brad asks.

"What?"

"Well, it's doing something," Brad points out. "I mean, at least it's not just sitting here."

"I can see how you might feel that that might be necessary," Steve says.

What happens next? Who will live? Who will die? And who will give a true statement which is unprovable within the confines of quotidian logic to illustrate Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?

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