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| Killing Mohammed
| | Johnny T.
| The United Staes government has determined that certain reserve personnel will remain on U.S soil to protect the homeland. Two inept Air National Guardsman, along with their Machiavellian, charismatic counterpart, Jack Hawkins, are three of the left behind. After a murder on the base they are protecting occurs, the self-absorbed Hawkins concocts a plot that is depraved and vicious, but brilliantly plays into the American psyche of fear. Hawkins kidnaps a “terrorist” and brings him onto the base in an effort to cover up the murder and portray himself as a hero of the Republic.
My thirty-thousand word novella, Killing Mohammed, is a dark comedy of our times. It imagines a very near future where the draft has been reinstated to fight the omnipresent threat of terrorism, and how government sanctioned fear, organized religion, power, and sex bleeds into society and warps our perceptions of right and wrong.
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