In the well of understanding
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Beginnings of a short story: Gathering The Tribe
This week sees the initiation of short story installments on my blog. For the first one I have selected a contemporary topic.
On the eve of a Presidential election, two U.S. Senators in separate locations awaited returns. Both had engaged in the fray of politics, though one lacked the years of experience of the other; and both, while playing to their constituencies, had advocated lies. Of course, neither considered them untruths but a matter of expediency to whatever end they deemed appropriate. And in doing so they continued the grand tradition, the inalienable pageantry, from which American Presidents arose.
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