The Deputy Mayor of Nowhere

Synopsis

Owen Brady took the job because it came with a title, a parking space directly outside the municipal building, and no duties whatsoever. Nine hundred people live in this town. Four of them wanted the position and three of them outranked him. In March the mayor resigns. In April the first deputy resigns. On the eleventh of May the second deputy resigns at nine in the morning and is out of the building by ten. Owen still has the parking space. It is now comfortably the least of what he has.

Who this is about

Owen Brady accepted Deputy Mayor of a town of nine hundred because it came with a title, a parking space and no duties of any kind.

What goes wrong

The mayor resigns in March. The first deputy resigns in April. The second resigns on the eleventh of May, at nine in the morning, over the same thing.

What's at stake

There is a reason all three of them left, and Owen is about to be the person who finds out what it was.

Why it keeps going

Each episode he opens one more drawer nobody had intended him to open.

Takeaway

The reason nobody wants the job is always written down somewhere.

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