Shot In The Dark

Secession Diaries, Part VII - Atlas Fled

As the great summit dawned on that fateful morning at Federal Courthouse in Fargo, North Dakota, nerves were raw and on edge on both sides. The US delegation, under President Buck Lincoln, knew that tensions were running hot, and the...

Secession Diaries, Part VI: Postcards From The Ledge

The leaders of the Two United States couldn't have been more different....

Secession Diaries, Part V - Snack At Midnight

The biggest nightmares have the smallest triggers. It was early June of 2012. Life in both of the new nations had settled into a rough, jittery stasis....

Secession Diaries, Part IV: World of Hurt

Tad and Sheila Devaney remembered the straw that broke the camel's back.....

Secession Diaries, Part III: Death and Taxes

The Prime Minister of the United States of Canada, Howard Dean, declared January 1 "Freedom Day" throughout the USoC. The eyes of the world focused on Times Square in New York City, where the official celebration of Freedom Day took...

Secession Diaries, Part II: Irrational Exuberance

"It's time for us to throw off the bad baggage of the old system. You remember the Red States used to be the slave states, right? That kills me" Mental Health Minister Garofalo, 2007 The United States of Canada's Constitutional...

Secession Diaries, Part I: Push Comes to Shove

January 1, 2017 - This post is part one of a several-part history of what was once called the United States, since the Great Secession of 2006. While historians will one day no doubt come up with a more comlplete...