AMERICA**NOT**MERCERICA: A NOVEL:Make America Sane Again (MASA)

This novel is a work of fiction. The story that follows imagines a presidency and a set of choices that never happened, yet feel familiar because they are built from the habits of power, the mechanics of institutions, and the small human compromises that shape public life. I wrote it to ask a simple question: how does a republic hold itself to its own standards when urgency presses and the ledger of decisions grows heavy? The fictitious story traces one leader's arc from decisive action to ...