This is the fifth and final installment in a five-part series of speculative fiction. Written from the perspective of Lodestar Magazine journalist Max Ezer in 2022, Twelve Days in June examines real events leading up to the 2020 Presidential election and forecasts speculative events beyond.

In Part V: Full Firepower, the crisis has reached apocalyptic dimensions: a nuclear threat against unspecified enemies has the entire world on edge. With the idea of a return to normalcy shattered to oblivion, the task falls to Congress to hammer out an unprecedented compromise.