Insects and Elephants

Two sharply satirical short stories about ordinary people caught in extraordinary government absurdity.In Mabel Has an Elephant Problem, Mabel Sanger is under surveillance—her every word recorded by a malfunctioning humanoid assigned by the New Government. As Mabel fights to keep her privacy and dignity. Scrambled circuits lead to a hilarious battle of wit versus wiring.In The Cicadas Have Landed, Bunny, a Texas-bred lobbyist with towering hair and even bigger morals, meets her match during a buggy lunch break in D.C. As cicadas swarm and friendships fray, Bunny learns the hard way that Washington isn't kind to women who think with their conscience.Witty, weird, and just a little too close to real, Insects and Elephants explores the strange friction between personal integrity and the systems that try to squash it.