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Found 6 works tagged 'Political'.
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Bridges
Published Apr 25, 2021 · 540 words (2 minutes) · 124 views
Satire Political border walls are stupid
It turns out The Wall – a ten-foot-high, two-foot-thick slab of iron-spiked, barbed-wire-topped concrete, spanning the border between the nations of Grattland and Niai – is not working. This is a humorous little ditty about how border walls are stupid.
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Politics As Usual
Published Jul 25, 2020 · 966 words (4 minutes) · 589 views
Horror Science Fiction Political
As the national elections approach, “lone shooters” stage attacks in major cities. Then an obscure blogger notices a connection between the killings.
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Bad Memories, 2032
Published Jul 25, 2020 · 686 words (3 minutes) · 514 views
An all-too-plausible glimpse into our future, this story imparts a shiver of recognition, a twinge of grief, and — I hope — even a flash of empathy.
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The Right Man for the Job
Published Jul 25, 2020 · 3,521 words (13 minutes) · 563 views
Fantasy Humor Historical Political ghost story
Democratic Party leaders are desperate. They hold a seance to summon the ghosts of journalist Molly Ivins, politician Adlai Stevenson II, and newscaster Walter Cronkite back from the afterlife to do something—anything!—about the current administration.
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Off the Menu
Published May 29, 2019 · 156 words (1 minute) · 603 views
Humor Literary Fiction Satire poetry politics Political brexit
This is an angry poem I wrote in response to Brexit.
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To Save Fragile Things from the Pounding of Heavy Ages
Published Nov 27, 2018 · 1,752 words (7 minutes) · 4 likes · 952 views
Literary Fiction Science Fiction Political
Beth hosts a niche science show with a modest audience. When a representative from the National Office of Truth in Media (part of the president’s War on Misinformation) comes on board to help edit scripts, ratings soar. But she soon realizes this help isn’t what it seems, and might just have devastating consequences for her own family and the country. A mathematician by training and an assembly programmer in a previous career, author Grayson Bray Morris is now a translator and writer based in the Netherlands.
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