@cvnelkin. This is based on the Lavender Scare that inspired my story "The Lavender Room" a ways back that you said remibded://mobitwitter.com/WPSU/status/744884776016850945 esco!
Ms. Ling, I would be honored to share this story with you.
It captures the heartache and abiding fear of would-be lovers in Dupont Circle DC in the days of the Lavendef Scare. I wrote it long before discovering the opera!
"Lavender"
If you care to read, I am posting "The Lavender Room."
Maureen Murphy (12/31/2020) "I think everybody (not on front line) should be issued silk pajamas to live in until full vaccination of the herd is reached. Call it 'The Great Silk War Against The Viral Invader.'"
c.) Unforgettable 2020-era visit to a lounging talk show pundit at his digs in Sag Harbor:
A Cautionary Tale. Moscow is HOURS ahead of us and in the wee hours tonight it will be bright and early THURSDAY morning while most of Washington DC sleeps.
Let me tell you about Primary Debate Season - 2019
1.
How many of you recall waking up the morning after the Dem primary debate in 2019 to a flood of tweets and Daily Mail (among others) commentary that "Tulsi smashed/beat/bulldozed, etc. Kamala Harris"?
2.
Well, I WATCHED the debate. Every microsecond. What DID happen was Gabbard TARGETED Harris with an attack which Harris parried well. Surprising at time as a Biden (or even Sanders) attack was what would have been expected in that Before Time of Five Years Ago.
3.
"In her lair above the Lincoln Memorial, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, AKA Death Mother, Tearer of Organs and Bane of the Oppressor filed her nails and scanned the horizon. It was quiet. Too quiet. The Tangerine Menace was still cowering in his Mar A Lago hidey hole."