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By Michael Chaney 4 June 2017 The End Michael Chaney has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Fourth Genre, Los Angeles Review, Minnesota Review, and Prairie Schooner. He lives in Vermont. His latest book on comics is Readin... More »
By Jennifer Moses 12 May 2017 To: The Office of the President From: Patricia “Pinky” Jones-Packer Subject: Application/Final Round/Fully Vetted HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL / HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL / HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL / HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL Dear Mr. Preside... More »
Not only is he very instinctual, but “my instinct turns out to be right”. The president said so himself, in the memorable Time magazine interview with Michael Scherer; the one including “I’m president, you’re not”. Very could be the key word in Tru... More »
ASSISTANT (on intercom): President Pence, I have Mrs. Pence calling for you on the Hotline. MIKE PENCE: (out of breath) Thank you, Melania. ASSISTANT: I’m hanging up, Mr. President, and I’ll be saying goodnight, along with the entire female staff and the u... More »
By Dan Geddes President Donald Trump announced today that he would not “sign on for a second season playing the President.” Trump admitted that the role of U.S. President was more challenging than he had ever imagined, and his previous acting experience ha... More »
By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON – “God Bless the CIA” read the large banner above the crowd in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, right across from the White House. A group of more than 300 Anti-Trump protestors were showing their support for the CIA, the... More »
Professor Sondra Lear, a feminist science fiction scholar par excellence, was sobbing in her State University of New York at Greenwich Village office. The fact that Trump was really the President of the United States devastated her. Although she had experience... More »
Act I Scene 1 SETTING: We are in the formal meeting room at the Kremlin where a Russian President usually greets foreign dignitaries. A large ornate oval table is filled with a variety of foods. There are two chairs at opposite ends of the table.... More »
By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON – At his eighty-minute press conference last week, President Donald Trump referred to his administration as a “well-oiled machine” and promised four more years of astonishing government efficiency. Trump’s first month in offi... More »
“To beat a reality TV star,” producer Harvey Schleishenstein murmured to himself, “it takes a reality TV star…” The idea didn’t belong to anyone in particular, but since it had come to him, he was considering it. Like the majority of voters in the ... More »
For those of you who just couldn’t take it anymore and shut off the news last spring, let me commend you – and briefly summarize what has happened in the interim. Hillary won (of course), and just four weeks ago, she gave a very gracious, unifying inaugura... More »
By Steven Michaels 18 February 2017 Blue states hate me! Mick Mulvaney, where’s my inauguration band? Crazy eyed, party lines, we’ll tarry our four year plans! Pudzerino, you must have known, oh, there’d be dancing in the land! And now it’s all ME,... More »