The Trackers

by Charles Frazier

for the best results, make use of every trick.

He looks at you sometimes like he doesn’t know who you are or even what kind of animal you are, surely not the same kind he’s a member of.

Strength was bullying the person in the right into apologizing to you.

Among those nine crusty, bitter old justices, the majority interpretation appeared to be that the Constitution demanded sacred capitalism exist wholly unfettered, no matter the crisis and the human toll.

After all, the ultimate expression of capitalism is not Democracy. It’s a dictatorship not of individual men but of corporations with interchangeable leaders. I wasn’t sure if the Depression was straining the structural limits of our Constitution or simply revealing that its fundamental ideas were faulty. Those revolutionaries of old had left so much space in their documents, so much fog and vagueness. Like scribing a draft and getting a laugh imagining people in the future trying to figure out what in hell they meant.