big! election! day!

Election day was his favorite day, though it sometimes spanned days or even months. The boy had never experienced the electoral college or a voting process with multiple polling places spanning across every state. Pundits with no particular credentials or education had called it the great streamlining of modern democracy on varying indistinguishable television shows. They sipped their thermoses of decaf Monster Energy and laughed at each other's jokes until their veneers fell out and their tonsils bled and sometimes their eyes rolled back momentarily before resetting to a familiar distant stare that suggested ambiguous intentions. No one was quite sure where the new election process was bor...View all