For whom did you last vote?

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The Eight Sentences

They could hear the dominoes being shuffled again,so Abe spun around on his bar stool to face the gamesmen and asked, “How many of y’all vote?”

His answer was four blank stares. 

After a pause, York spoke up, “You mean in elections?”

Louie said to Abe, “Guess you got your answer, huh? What about you, do you vote?”

“Sometimes, the last time I voted was when Samuel L.Jackson and I voted for the brother, gimmie another beer.”

Louie volunteered, “The last time I voted was for Miss Rheingold.”

The Back Story

     The members of the Presidents Club and their bartender discuss the relative interest of the general population in voting. Some people don't even bother anymore. Do you vote?

Louie the bartender did. He voted for Miss Rheingold in the beer company's annual competition. 

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The Set Up

      Today's excerpt comes from Chapter Six of my serial novel, The Presidents Club. In Chapter Four, one of the characters, Ronald Gold, watched a documentary on public television, More Than One Vote. Although the documentary is fictitious, a dear friend of mine from New York wrote a review of it for me [link above on title]. 

      We join Mr. Gold and one of his friends as they discuss the documentary...

The Six Sentences

"It seemed like they wanted to educate kids about how the government is supposed to work as opposed to how it is working.”

“Yeah, like that’s going to change anytime soon,” Abe laughed.

“I’m telling you, man. This was impressive. I haven’t heard anything so sincere since the Temptations sang, ‘My Girl’ on Ed Sullivan,” and Gold smiled.

They could hear the dominoes being shuffled again,so Abe spun around on his bar stool to face the gamesmen and asked, “How many of y’all vote?”

His answer was four stares as blank as the domino with no spots.

After a pause, York spoke up, “You mean in elections?”

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