Chapter 01
The message We start with a close-up of the phone. The screen of the phone. No, before that, black and just the sound Ping! That’s the phone, then fade up and we see it…
Category: Alternate History
Chapter 02
Basecamp We’ll stick with the Charlize character for the moment. Great. I like her. Let’s call her… What do we call her? Charlize? No. Something tough. Tough but tender. Amber, Topaz, Jet… …
Chapter 03
Conference call “Not overestimating ourselves are we?” Peta Pinter, all in black with severely cut dyed black hair and kohl eyeliner.“Plus in less than one hundred days, America gets to choose anyway. The voters will…
Chapter 04
The reject pile “Boring. Boring. Very Boring. Give that one to Gav. Boring. Tedious. One for Priti. Not interested. Bor…” As he was reflexively placing the folder on the rapidly growing pile nominated as boring,…
Chapter 05
Frederick gets the vote Frederick Polson II stormed the official screentest. The local crew in Phoenix had done a good job on him. The hairdresser teased his frail hair – normally ponytailed – into something…
Chapter 06
Smoke and fire Duzz-duzz, duzz-duzz, duzz-duzz.Something was. What the. Whuh. Uh. Something.He clawed his way out of the first proper home rest in weeks. No night shifts for a while.Duzz-duzz, duzz-duzz, duzz-duzz. The apartment buzzer.…
Chapter 07
Got you Unbelievable! Nearly seven hundred likes and no hates. Radical! Mood! And now someone called JuJu had actually commented! His first comment! Jamar’s heart was skipping as he read JuJu’s message yet again: Hey…
Chapter 08
The standoff The medics arrived within ten minutes of the call, confirmed a likely stroke, and the President was taken off on a gurney with the emergency team fussing around him. Secret Service agents made…
Chapter 09
Helter skelter The shouting started backstage immediately after the first Presidential Debate. Apart from someone addressing him as ‘You old dickweed,’ he was left more or less alone in his own bubble of misery. Yes,…
Chapter 10
Lull Was it a sense of creeping boredom, that even the extraordinary can become normal over time?Jamar felt it, now being pushed by his increasing number of followers to report on a continuing and ever…