The Administration and the Fury

Sam Apple's brilliant Faulkner-alike winning piece "The Administration and the Fury," a blend of political satire and Sound and the Fury stylistics, has been put up once at Slate, and once on the Hemispheres In Flight Magazine page, and has been republished on Yahoo.com here. Brilliant.

Down the hall, under the chandelier, I could see them talking. They were walking toward me and Dick's face was white, and he stopped and gave a piece of paper to Rummy, and Rummy looked at the piece of paper and shook his head. He gave the paper back to Dick and Dick shook his head. They disappeared and then they were standing right next to me.

"Georgie's going to walk down to the Oval Office with me," Dick said.

"I just hope you got him all good and ready this time," Rummy said.

"Hush now," Dick said. "This aint no laughing matter. He know lot more than folks think."

Dick patted me on the back good and hard. "Come on now, Georgie," Dick said. "Never mind you, Rummy."