“Overturned!” cried the judges. “You’re free!”

Our first tram ride home in years echoed with their warning that we remember this mercy should we ever catapult into power.

We didn’t. After the coup, we scorched our enemies out of dirt and mind.

Of course, the judges had to go, too.

Evan McMurry’s fiction has been published in more than one dozen journals, including Post Road, Euphony, Arcturus, Oddville Press, Lotus-Eater Magazine, Palaver, Mulberry Fork Review and more. His story “Nothing Kinky” won the New Millennium Fiction Prize, and his story “Nixon in Heaven” won Exposition Review’s Flash Fiction contest. “The Fall of Rabbi Gold” was selected as a finalist for the Al-Simāk Award for Fiction from the Chicago Review of Books.