Goodreads asked Terrance Aldon Shaw:

Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Terrance Aldon Shaw The dictator was re-elected in 2020, and there would never be another election. All the men and women who had traveled back through time to try and stop him had been intercepted and killed, or packed off to institutions where no one would ever give credence to their warnings, for they had been driven mad in their failure, and now could only gnash their teeth in inarticulate frustration, howling in agony and horror as they banged their shaven heads repeatedly against the grim beige walls.

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