"Prayer for a Dead Paramecium" by Carl Frederick

Two brothers go to a science exhibition that is partly a games arcade set-up by a sponser. The smaller of the brothers reacts badly to a particular game, causing a ruckus and they end up in the office of the exhibition's administrator. In the ensuing conversation, opinions about who is in the right and what is is the right thing to do take place, changing the opinions of more than one person involved.

• Read from Analog SF, July-August 2005 issue