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Only a Frump could be, elected in this modern age. Because no one trusted a man to get anything, right anymore. The first female president fit the model, and this reporter was putting the pieces together on how she got elected.
She simply put a new approach to classic political ploys. The right gal, at the right time.
All wasn't smooth sailing though...
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Ever wonder how all these Romances and Academic papers get written?
Interestingly, most of these authors have pets. Cats, particularly, who like to type. Seriously. But you'll never know it. Because they get into your dreams at night and make you think you did all that typing.
Of course, this might explain some of the wild theories that come out of Universities these days, as well as the exotic Romances...
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F. D. C. Willard, a red tabby cross-bred...
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She told the magistrate she had been abused, taken advantage of, her reputation ruined.
Or, had she?
The village law said that the benefit of the doubt lay with the most vulnerable. And, so women were believed, when they said some male had fondled or groped or acted in a threatening manner.
For Lyla, it had happened many times. All to her shame.
The men she accused were penalized and their own reputations marked.
Simply denying it was no defense....
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It all started when politicians and out-spoken celebrities and sports figures started being exposed for the stinkers they are.
It all started with a science grant that created a hypocrisy scanner. Tested on terrorists, it made them disappear. Tested on only the "sometimes" hypocritical, it made them evacuate their bowels. (To say it nicely.)
The results changed Washington and sports teams. But only those, who were hypocritical. Integrity got new...
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This man had ruined his life. So he wanted payback.
Found him in a chain restaurant. Back booth. Playing solitaire.
"Maestro the Magnificent." Humbug.
The guy that had launched a self-help cult based on Get Rich Quick advice was now a disheveled mess. After faking his death and disappearing, it didn't help him.
Something about being cursed with eternal life.
And having to "sleep in the bed he'd made" - forever.
He was nearly begging...
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Indecision has been known to kill people. In politics, it just makes fund-raising harder.That's why we gremlins love the politicians. When they built Washington on our swamp, we got the best deal out of it.Us and the faerie-folk.Until then, we only had the natives and the migrant colonists to work with. Influencing their minds and helping them to live more "interesting" lives."But when they paved over that swamp and replaced it with all sorts of statuary,...
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Julie Montcalm had a problem - or two of them. Horace Hackett Jr. was behind deadline for a story she needed. But the worst of that is he had written her into the story itself, as a character.
Along with her friend and fellow classmate Micah DeWolf, she was living the story itself as Hackett wrote it.
Worse, it was a hack-job version of his father's pulp fiction story about Caribbean wars between the English and Spanish. And the two of them were...
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What happens when politicians get old and can no longer be trusted?
Out of power, living on a trust fund, her philandering husband living his own life without her.
Only her dreams of one-time fame (and an often re-filled case of wine) to keep her company, and her old campaign adviser to visit now and then to help her with her biography. Trapped in her own, private, white house. A form of retirement.
But, she knows they are all up to something....
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Our Second Civil War was over in minutes, while the conflict took decades. As in all wars, both sides lost heavily and then proclaimed victory. I knew this all too well, serving as a paramedic to patch up their wounded and dying.
I'd gotten myself into 'Cagga to solve my nightmares. After I'd sworn off coming back into the cities where the only real violence happened. She was in my dreams every night, and turned them into the same hell on earth she...
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A Collection of the Dark Humor Satire of R. L. Saunders
Life in our dystopian near-futures has never been funnier. Saunders gets inspiration from our daily news, and these stories are therapy for us as well. Skewering what is accepted as conventional wisdom, Saunders explores concepts which are more easily delivered with entertainment than op-eds or tweet-storms.
Always taking the "what if" of current controversies to their slippery-slope results,...
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The third time she was, beaten up by a different roving city gang and this time left for dead. The guy, who saved her life wanted to help solve, how she ended up that way.
What wasn't working was to be anything they wanted. White, Black, Male, Female, Gay, Straight, someone was always offended, no matter what. And now, she had no choice. They had taken all she had, even her job, apartment and everything else she owned. Even her identity. Now she...
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A Second Collection of the Dark Humor Satire of R. L. Saunders
Life in our dystopian near-futures has never been funnier. Saunders gets inspiration from our daily news, and these stories are therapy for us as well. Skewering what is accepted as conventional wisdom, Saunders explores concepts which are more easily delivered with entertainment than op-eds or tweet-storms.
Always taking the "what if" of current controversies to their slippery-slope...
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