“It’s all in the report,” she said, “If you read it. He has a 32 percent chance of dropping out of the race and being driven out of office by scandal.” He’ll increase his chances of winning the election if he wears a red tie. “His numbers will go down midweek, then rise on the weekend. Page after page, sixty-four in all, she knew, until he started skipping ahead, and finally flipped the report, irritation showing on his ruddy face. Her contact slid the report across the table, and the manager leafed through it briefly as a layman might leaf through a mathematical proof of gravity. This is an impressive story about a young woman who mines data and subsequently comes to work for a Senator after predicting that a scandal will break on a specific weekend:
The first of these is The Bewilderness of Lions by Ted Kosmatka. The fiction this month is particularly good with three novelettes that I would rate as good or better. Childs, Jane Yolen, Vincent Miskell, Robert Borski
Greg Hullender and Eric Wong, Rocket Stack RankĪ Partial List of Lists I have Lost Over Time
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