37 Days

Allow me to introduce you to 37 Days, a 126,000-word literary fiction.

It’s the election of the year 2000, and something fishy goes down at the ballot boxes in Florida. In the middle of it all are twin siblings from an obscure political party with their own skeletons to hide, and the perfect hiding place. Whodunit? Blame the Radicals.

Twins Meghan and Dennis Flannery are heirs to the throne of the American Radical Party. Their grandfather ran for president nine times as its nominee; their father, a Vietnam War deserter and social dissident, serves as its nominal chairman. In the year 2000, the smooth-talking Meg lives in New Jersey, isolated from her family. Dennis, an autistic data guru, serves as the Party’s chief strategist in Florida.

One morning, Meg reappears at campaign headquarters. Dennis does not know that his sister is wanted by police for a spree of cons on the East Coast under a bevy of fake names. On Election Night, as the world watches, the election devolves into chaos.

Soon, the oblivious Dennis and the slippery Meghan are implicated in political hijinks at the root of the debacle. And when Meg gets caught, she brings the whole family down with her.

In the year 2017, Dennis, now incarcerated for crimes committed by his sister but pinned on him, reads letters from Meg, freed after a short sentence and infamous today as “The Red Lady.”

Will the Flannery family, and the country, survive their shenanigans?