by Sonya Friedman
Little Red State put on her hoodie, packed a basket of goodies, and took off through the forest to visit her Blue State Grandma. In spite of some of their basic differences, both Little Red and Grandma Blue had democratic spirit and loved their Republic.
Along the way, deep in the woods, Big Bad Trumpy Wolf jumped Little Red, mugged her (he had a history of this) and grabbed her goodies (another bad habit of his).
Then, startled by a gunshot from Supreme Huntress SS (aka Sonia Sotomayor) he took off for Grandma’s. There, Big Bad Trumpy promptly attacked Grandma and wolfed her down. (Too bad, this would not have been possible had he been a fox.). After he had thus ravaged Grandma, he put on her nightclothes and jumped into her bed – continuing his shocking behavior of sexual misconduct and now, cross-dressing.
In the meantime, Supreme Hunter SS became so busy leading other people out of the woods that she lost track of Little Red’s travails.
Little Red – quite disheveled from that previous woodland encounter – finally arrived at her Grandma’s cottage. She admired what she thought were Grandma’s greatly renewed vigor and especially her big white teeth – surprising, since the last time Little Red had seen Grandma, the old lady had been toothless. But, Red reasoned, with modern dentistry, anything is possible.
At that point, Big Bad Trumpy leapt out of bed and wolfed down Little Red as well. This removed all possibility of a continuing relationship between Red and Blue. Then Big Bad Trumpy swallowed up the whole damn country.
Sonya Friedman: As a writer/translator, I created subtitles for foreign films, mostly Italian (Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini). Then I segued into creating “supertitles” for opera productions across the country, including for the Metropolitan Opera. As a documentary filmmaker, I was an Oscar nominee.