Dr. Brad Rosenheim has moved!
Margaret Moonshadow@Brad_Rosenheim When I first heard about this state guard, it alarmed me but was somehow reassured---via the news, both print and televised--that it wasn't what I feared it might be. Now I realize that it is exactly as I feared. This reminds me in these times, it's kind of ok to rely more on instinct especially in places like Florida. DeSantis is a rogue governor. Let's just hope it ends there.
Stevens R Miller@MargaretSefton @Brad_Rosenheim
I wonder if his Plan B, if he can't become president of the United States, is to secede and become president of Florida.
@stevensrmiller @Brad_Rosenheim I've been working on a fantastical near future fiction in which the south secedes, grounding the point of view in Florida. I guess anything is possible? ugh. lols.
@MargaretSefton @Brad_Rosenheim
Been working on the same thing. My map has Florida as a republic in a kind of federation with the states to its west, and New England, etc., as its own nation, operating under a free-trade alliance with the nation of the Pacific states. Everything else in the USA becomes a loosely amalgamated set of theocratic territories, governed by a squabbling conference of anointed sheriffs.
We'd better finish our work on these soon, or history will get there first.
@stevensrmiller @Brad_Rosenheim Love it. I haven't worked out how all the states will fall out, only north and south. But I incorporate Civil War ghosts so mine is much more fantastical/region-specific. History informing a near future interests me a great deal, sans slavery although systematic racism is a feature. I've thought the same thing, re: a deadline. My mfa writing group is more literary so I don't know if I can convince them to read this/critique it but I may have to try. 🖤 💀