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I was sitting here wondering what I'm gonna be doing in five years when no matter what we say-It could be different.
What if a couple years from now, I'm writing the speaches and creating all the propaganda for the leader on Barbados... It's a comfortable enough position-but a hurricane hits and devistates the island. Instead of organizing the rebuilding, I organize the newly homeless into an angry rebellion and use my ties to the military to stage a coup.
I have the leader assassinated and consilidate power for myself. All who might challenge my power are rounded up and killed. The U.N. and U.S. are horrified by whats happening with the aid money their sending and say they'll blockade the island if I don't bring in an outside person to supervise the relief fund distribution... I whole-heartedly accept and recommend you for the job. Your degree in business management translated into you becoming a self-made woman in the development industry-across both North America and the Mid East.
You agree and come in, supervising the replanting of crops (corn, papaya, sugar cane, tabacco, bananas, ect.), rebuilding the gold and iron mines, and investing in industry: like a new cannery, rum and cigar factories, lumber mills and furnature shops... That's when I come to you with my plan:I want to install you as leader-since if I led, there would be an international outcry. I would just serve as the country's "generalisimo" and so would keep most of the attention off me... You agree.
So I conscript a force and declare martial law, arresting anyone I didn't like. Shortly thereafter, you swoop in and admonish me. You open up the jails and declare amnesty across the island. Not only that, but you issue a tax cut. At mardi gras,when stirrings of an election come up-I declare early elections and nominate you. We buy the election and you get 99% of the vote...
Your the most popular leader in Barbados' history. I issue all the unpopular edicts and you make all the popular decrees. I build schools and colleges and you declare education free. I upgrade the clinics and hospitals and you make healthcare free too... The U.N. and U.S. praise your leadership and you get them to send trade delegations and development aid... I build a bunch of tenements and you create social security. You develop a tourist trade by making an airport, beach villas and hotels, casinos and nightclubs, spas and a sports stadium.
I make a bunch of newspapers, radio and TV stations and start pumping out the state propaganda... The people tolerate me, but worship you. There are statues of you on every corner. The people are mesmerized by your beauty and charisma... At least...until they find out we've been embezzling the aid money into a presidential slush fund... We get out of the country before the palace is overrun.
See... Who would've guessed that five years from now, we'd end up living it up on a billion dollars stolen from the U.N. and the fine people of Barbados?
Who would've thought.
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Dialog Samples
Wisdom Gained
CommonMen 3
CommonMen 4
Dopplegangers
MicroFiction
The Afterlife Is Gay
Short Stories
Up From The Depths
Bangin' Onna Trashcan
The Conductor... Is A Bear!!
