Sigh. "Beltway Bandits" are the contractors and lobbyists, not the military and civilian folks working in the Pentagon. That said, gonna be hard to decide which stories to embellish into good fiction...
May depend on where you first heard the term and in what context. But experiences vary. And being cursed with an abundance of stories means multiple anthology submissions!
Okay, I'm not going to make the deadline for Pogue One. I'm on my second draft, but I've just never done any "from scratch" worldbuilding. I'll continue working on it, and maybe it will fit somewhere else, or I'll just post it on my substack.
Okay, I'm in. I have 1,040 words and the whole plot roughed in.
Sigh. "Beltway Bandits" are the contractors and lobbyists, not the military and civilian folks working in the Pentagon. That said, gonna be hard to decide which stories to embellish into good fiction...
May depend on where you first heard the term and in what context. But experiences vary. And being cursed with an abundance of stories means multiple anthology submissions!
I was one of those Pentagon denizens for more years than I care to say. WE called the contractors and lobbyists Beltway bandits.
Okay, I'm not going to make the deadline for Pogue One. I'm on my second draft, but I've just never done any "from scratch" worldbuilding. I'll continue working on it, and maybe it will fit somewhere else, or I'll just post it on my substack.