The Party: Chapter 4 – Andy McGuire Flash Fiction Friday Post

Yes, this is political. I offer you trigger warnings for language and sexual and racist slurs and comments. Future episodes may also contain rape, abuse, and other unpleasant things.

Chapter 4: Andy McGuire

Special Assistant to the President and Director of the
Office of the Chief of Staff Andy McGuire entered the President Jeff Master’s
private office. The Chief of Staff, Duncan Angelson was standing in the middle
of the room. The president was on the sofa with a young, blond, woman in his
lap. The young woman was wearing a sleeveless, low cut, tight fitting blouse in
hot pink and the president had his hand up her tiny skirt, grinning like a
small boy with his favorite toy. Andy thought the woman was barely legal but who
knew. He moved his eyes to his boss, Duncan.

Duncan read from a folder. “Mr. President. After four
years, the internment of undesirables is down. They’ve mostly been sent to
internment camps and put to work for the good of the motherland. Dissidents, on
the other hand—those numbers are up. But they’re getting harder to catch.”

Out of the corner of his eye Andy could see the president
nuzzling the woman’s neck. He focused. “Chief, a message from the Secretary of
Homeland Security.” He handed McGuire the sheet of paper and waited while the
man read it.

“This is some news, Mr. President. The Immaculata have
seized a small group of dissidents right here in Washington. They’re being
interrogated as we speak. They expect they’ll get a number of leads on other
groups.”

“Good,” the President said into the woman’s neck. “Good.”
He moved his hand down her bare leg to her knee and moved it further aside. His
hand went back up her skirt. “Keep me apprised. Dismissed.”

The Chief of Staff nodded. “Very good, sir. A reminder
that the women’s volleyball team will be here in an hour and a half for a photo
op.”

The President raised his head and grinned. “Excellent.
Lovely young ladies, those.” He went back to his nuzzling, pushing the woman
further back.

The Chief caught Andy’s eye and we left the room. Andy
swallowed his bile and wished to go wash his hands, but he followed the Chief
to his office. He closed the doors behind them.

“Make sure the President is cleaned up and in the Oval
and the woman paid off and escorted out as soon as he’s done. Get the news crew
into the office and set up before he gets in there.”

Andy nodded. The whole situation was disgusting but
that was the world they were living in now. “The People’s Party leader, Mr.
Evans, wants a meeting today.” Evans was the brains behind the president, who Andy
was starting to believe was more than a little senile. But as long as he was
kept in blonde young women and had time to watch eight hours of news and
political commentary a day with his phone in hand to send out tweets, he was
controllable. Evans, however, was merciless. Paid off by the top one percent of
the one percent, the ultra-rich were now in charge of the country. Mega-corporations
pretty much owned everything. The air, water and land was becoming more
polluted already as environmental laws were repealed.

“What’s he want?”

“I suspect the little revolt in Congress the other day
concerns him. He’s going to want those Senators taken care of.”

McGuire nodded, sighing. “Yeah. I figured as much. Can
any of them be bought off?”

“Anyone who would take a payoff has pretty much been
in our pocket for two years now. These are the radical hold-outs.” Andy wasn’t
sure how the People’s Party had missed taking over those districts but that
wouldn’t last much longer. The mid-term elections would see those Senators
replaced. If they lived that long.

“See if they’ll be bought off. If not, arrange
something.” He turned on his computer. He had work to do.

Andy nodded and left, stomach rolling. He was hoping
they’d take a bribe. If not, the party had some people I could call. It would
all look like accidents of course. They always did. And, for the sake of the
visuals, they wouldn’t happen all at once. But it would happen. Oh yes. It
would happen.

Thank you for reading.

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