Crisis Actors
ShortStory 5,232 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"Michael sips his coffee, watching the screen automatically cycle through vidfeeds coming in from across the country, lingering just long enough to hit the relevant button. He knows the dominionist rhetoric, had heard it in the media, read it when he researched this job (at least the Department for a Safe America had medical and benefits)."
Content warnings 3
deathgoreviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.