A story I wrote under the pen name Alma Emil appears in the new short story anthology Southern Truths.
I wrote “Delia’s Legacy” in January 2024, when we thought the 2024 presidential election would be Biden v. Trump. I suspected the Democrats would lose that contest. So my near-future story is about an elderly couple, possibly the only liberals in their small Southern town, and how they respond to that defeat.
After Kamala Harris got the nomination in July, we considered taking “Delia’s Legacy” out of the anthology. It was possibly through inertia that we left it in. On Tuesday night, to my surprise and dismay, reality caught up to fiction.
Publisher Bob Brown of B Cubed Press has given me permission to reprint the story online. If you’re curious, you can click to read “Delia’s Legacy”.
