by Sean Dempsey | 07/21/26 Dear reader, before you begin this story please know that every fact is real. I embellished nothing, save my typical literary flare. Always remember this simple truth: upon this earth, human injustice is not the exception, it is the rule… ===== It was 11:07am on a Tuesday when I first […]
Sean Dempsey’s short story “Justice” (which is an extract from his 2022 work “A Sad Collection of Short Stories, Cheap Parables, Amusing Anecdotes, & Covid-Inspired Bad Poetry”) works best when read not as a replacement for Kafka, but as a narrowing of Kafka’s nightmare. Kafka gives us the whole disease. Dempsey gives us the moment […]
I would here like to counter the “witch-hunt” narrative and attempt to present, in a more orderly and comprehensive fashion than ad hoc conversation would allow, the facts which should provide the basis for any conversation on this topic. I submit the following timeline. In it, I have tried to compile a good amount of […]
