Washington, Real and Imagined
So much of the political news from the nation’s capital seems, these days, stranger than fiction.
Political Fiction
The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “The We of Me” by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
As the election cycle ramps up, it becomes more and more apparent the many philosophical divisions splitting our country here in the United States. In her story “The We of Me” (The Rumpus), Lucy Jane Bledsoe takes us into a future dystopia where her characters—our descendants—are drawn to transcend the different iterations of those same…