Joseph Grant is a talented writer living in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals. His latest work, The Campaign Promise, tells the story of Manuel Ortiz, a politician running for office in Mexico. But when Ortiz tells a group of his farmer constituents that he will make it rain, he may have made a promise that he can’t keep.
Manuel Ortiz blotted at the sweat that beaded on his forehead and over his upper lip. Although his upper lip was eclipsed by a thick, black moustache, Manuel Ortiz dabbed anyway, knowing appearances were everything up on the platform where he sat on a creaking metal chair.
It was a good crowd today, he thought to himself. Not like yesterday when Villarosa’s people had infiltrated the common good nature of the townspeople and spread their vicious truths. Ortiz was used to the low-down mudslinging, dog-eat-dog world that was politics and he was used to an opponent using half-truths and lies to paint a negative picture, but never had he known his opponent to stoop so low and to be so malevolent as to tarnish his good political name with the truth.
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