VOTE FOR DEKE WILSON… OR DIE by Thomas Lee Joseph Smith
October 30, 2007 Humorous,Short stories Tags: politics, Thomas Lee Joseph Smith
6:43 A.M. Cobb County,
The camera comes to life, the attached lights staring brightly ahead. It’s November 2008 and we’re in a school gymnasium that’s been set up as a voting station. There are tables and an American flag and there are ten elderly citizens sitting behind the tables, and stacks of ballots ready to be distributed… what seems a bit unusual are the big pistols and shotguns sitting on the tables and being carried about. The man in the room with the least firepower available, is the uniformed police officer sitting in the corner on a folding chair. (more…)
