The Gerrymander Bystander
an Anecdotal Study of Social Division in Our Town
by Nicholas Nocketback

I was enjoying the magical splendor that is public inebriation at a local haunt of mine the other night when I learned a very important lesson about this town and its denizens. With a single sentence, an otherwise stunning, albeit tipsy, young woman summed up what everyone here knows but normally never says: You live in Tower? We gotta go, nice meeting you.