Emerald City

Category: Newspaper Article

I submitted this story to 'The Ottawa Citizen' in Nov 2006 following the results of the Ottawa municipal elections.
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I returned from Washington D.C. to my home in Ottawa only to find out that I was accidentally dropped off in a place called Emerald City where apparently against all odds, a grand wizard by the name of Larry O’Brien has been elected mayor.

The outgoing mayor lies crushed in Oz and can still be heard crying “Oh! What a world! What a world!”.

One of the natives, a munchkin by the name of Alex who also ran against O’Brien, tells me that it’s not too late to escape. Apparently the new mayor is on leave studying ‘Mayoralty For Dummies’.

Alex tells me to click my heels three times and repeat: “There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home…”