Every four years, George and Michelle Anderson go hand in hand to their polling place to vote, hopeful their presidential candidate will win. Every four years, they spend election night guzzling coffee side by side on the couch, watching election returns. Every four years, one of them is bitterly disappointed.

Paul Germano was born, raised, and still lives in Syracuse, smack dab in the center of New York State. His fiction–micro, flash, and longer–has been published in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Hong Kong, and India.