A tragic realization: In the very near future, most people who read my short story It’s Always Friday will probably think its female “President Harris” character is extremely uninspired and blandly named… Except for the fact that I named the character and wrote the story way back in 2018, long before real-world Kamala Harris was on everyone’s radar, or even mine.

I chose the name by reading lists of common American surnames and looking for one I thought the average person could think sounds presidential enough to vote for, lmao.

(This post is a childish self-defense in advance. And also, maybe a brag I guess?)