Roman Carnival

"The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd"

Imagine, if you will, a moment in time when an American president takes to the airwaves to reassure the public that the government is in fact not producing massive hurricanes and flinging them at its citizens. As a fiction writer, this is the kind of scene that fills my imagination; it is potent, ironic, implausibly hilarious. Well, reality took the whe…