Jessie Seigel
Jessie Seigel (www.jessieseigel.com) is a former lawyer, a political columnist, and a fiction editor at the Potomac Review. Her fiction has appeared in Ontario Review, the Pen Woman, Gargoyle, Daily Science Fiction, The London Reader, and the anthologies Electric Grace and Furious Gravity, among others. Seigel has twice received fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In addition, her work has been a finalist for a Speculative Literature Foundation grant and the New Millennium Award, as well as a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner Creative Writing Award for the Novel and for the Eludia Award. Jessie recommends donation to Faithful America, a Christian organization combatting Christian extremism.
My words went through the man like a pin through the skin of a balloon. He bounced off the tent’s canvas walls, the air whooshing out of him as he tried to outshout me. “I am famous and feared, and you are nothing,” he sputtered.
But I am not insane. I simply hear the discordant music others cannot hear. And see events that others cannot see. And there’s nothing I can do to stop the circle of events or affect them—or even warn the players in them.
The governor was furious. Out of mind, out of temper furious. His law, though passed by the legislature, had been disobeyed. His orders, meant to be carried out to the letter, had failed of enforcement.
