ELECTION
BRIDGE
Callee grew up admiring
her larger-than-life neighbour to the south. She loves sophisticated New York
City, the easy lifestyle of San Francisco, Waikiki, the Eagles, Bob Dillon, and
Joan Baez. A prideful people who
believed in the land of the free.
But now? She was glad
she lived north of their border and not south, where one candidate refers to
Mexicans as drug smugglers, rapists, bad people, but some, presumably, are good.
Callee watched her grandchildren playing, feeling grateful she didn’t have to
explain his words to them.
Her heart went out to
her US neighbours who face a tough decision come November; vote to support
their party or vote strategically to keep an egotist from power he will assuredly
abuse.
The election is the
best reality television game show on air. The American people are hostage to a
national bridge tournament.
I hope they won’t be Trumped.
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Flash Fiction Picture Prompt Provided By:
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