It turned out she was easily as good an interior designer as she had been an architect, and before long she had a backlog of work and was adding staff.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
Then, for the masses, the protective disks were eliminated and the screeching fear pounded at them until the processes of creative thinking were destroyed, leaving a backlog of malleable and obedient habit patterns.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
Not long after this was disposed of, the host and his guests betook themselves to sleep in quilts and blankets on the puncheon floor, with their feet to the blazing backlog and glowing bed of coals.
"A Hero of Ticonderoga"
Rowland E. Robinson