She cracks the door open, and the feds burst in. One with a clipboard announces she’s been elected President, congratulations. As they dress her in body armor, she sobs and protests, eyes windows for snipers. Clipboard explains she won by a single ballot. Quaking, she wishes she’d remembered to vote.
Graham Robert Scott’s stories have appeared in Barrelhouse, Nature, and Pulp Literature. See more at hemicyon.wordpress.com.
Brilliant.
Great story!
(one question: shouldn’t she have said she’d wish she HAD NOT cast her ballot, because it would have been a tie, having just realized she really didn’t want what was coming? Or am I missing the point entirely?)
Hi Monica! I’m of the school that an author shouldn’t explain his or her own work, so I won’t, but I will testify that the part of the text you’re asking about reads exactly as intended.