Author: dRIFTLESSwRITER

By the time the speech was over, so was the campaign, though the senator wouldn’t be sure of it until he saw it in his wife’s eyes. At that moment, he knew that the fallout from this evening would be swift and brutal. The once-grand ballroom of the Philadelphia banquet hall, which had earlier buzzed with the energy of 500 influential journalists and writers, now lay nearly empty, a testament to the disastrous turn of events.