FICTION

Washington’s Lament

The Collapse of the Grand Ideal

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The rising mist off the waters dissipated by a cold northerly breeze. Spontaneously, innumerable witnesses gathered at the Potomac River’s Virginia shore. The throng stared in shock as the smoke and flames billowed over DC.

Someone yelled from the crowd, “Has our Capitol fallen and how…