Fictional Politics Novels & Stories

I threw that out casually. "My real family? What are you talking about?" I looked at him keenly, then I chuckled. "You'd be an A-list actor if you had added entertainment to your career, rather than politics. But then again, aren't all politicians actors?" "I don't know what you're talking about!" He insisted. "Ina seems like a pretty nice girl, doesn't she? And a promising sweet girl," I said sighing. Morgan gritted his teeth, trying to still feign ignorance.

In this world everyone pretended. Not about everything that would have been exhausting and also counterproductive. The pretending was specific and targeted and each person maintained their own precise inventory of what they pretended and what they acknowledged and what lived in the space between those two categories that had no clean name. Politicians pretended their relationships with men like Luca were purely social. Judges pretended the cases that resolved in specific ways resolved that way because of the law. Port administrators pretended they hadn't noticed that certain manifests processed differently during certain shift rotations. Legitimate business people pretended they hadn't look