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To Cut a Short Story Short

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Posted on November 1, 2015June 20, 2023 by Simon J. Wood

(200 words) Exploding high in the stratosphere, America’s latest filled the screen with brilliant white. Observing from an expansive black leather chair in the impressively appointed conference room of Airforce One, the president shifted uncomfortably.

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