Drumpf for President: A Scary Fable

I found this manuscript in an unnamed file on a thumb drive left by my office door. There was nothing else on the drive. I can only assume it was left for me to read and decide what to do with it. I did some online searching for R. Pieces and the only close connection I could draw was with myself. I sometimes use Rieces Pieces as a hip-hop rap name and for a twitter account. This "fable" about Duke Drumpf is intended as a work of political satire. It falls within the tradition established in recent years by two of my favorite authors, Philip Roth, Our Gang (New York: Random House, 1971) and Calvin Trillin, Tepper Isn't Going Out by (New York: Random House, 2001). After reading the manuscript I decided it stands up well and is a meaningful contribution to contemporary political discourse. Because of time pressure, the 2016 Presidential election is less than three months away, I decided to distribute it through Amazon and advertise it on my Huffington blog and through my email networks. I hope you find it as scary and funny as I did.