Rep. Horner Tells It Like It Is

An excerpt from my novel, Another Crescent Moon.

Josh Cook
7 min readMay 12, 2024

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An orchestral barrage erupts on the TV and the words BREAKING NEWS appear against a sea of red, which then parts to show Firth Bronzer, giddy as a tween with backstage Bieber passes.

The Horner results have just come in: 218 for, 217 against removing him from his committees. A real nail-biter, it…

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Josh Cook

Writing about writing, literature, & philosophy. Fiction, sometimes, too.