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No I did not, I tell him. I do not tell him I was dragged from
my home 3 years ago. I do not tell him that I was dragged
away exactly 7 years after The Reestablishment began to
preach and 4 months after they took control of everything. I
do not tell him how little I know of our new world.
Adam says The Reestablishment had its hands in every
country, ready for the moment to bring its leaders into a
position of control. He says the inhabitable land left in the
world has been divided into 3,333 sectors and each space is
now controlled by a different Person of Power.
Did you know they lied to us? Adam asks me.
Did you know that The Reestablishment said someone had
to take control, that someone had to save society, that
someone had to restore the peace? Did you know that they
said killing all the voices of opposition was the only way to
find peace?
Did you know this? is what Adam asks me.
And this is where I nod. This is where I say yes.
This is the part I remember: The anger. The riots. The rage.
My eyes close in a subconscious effort to block out the bad
memories, but the effort backfires. Protests. Rallies.
Screams for survival. I see women and children starving to
death, homes destroyed and buried in rubble, the
countryside a burnt landscape, its only fruit the rotting flesh
of casualties. I see dead dead dead red and burgundy and
maroon and the richest shade of your mother’s favorite
lipstick all smeared into the earth.
So much everything all the things dead.
The Reestablishment is struggling to maintain its hold over
the people, Adam says. He says The Reestablishment is
struggling to fight a war against the rebels who will not
acquiesce to this new regime. The Reestablishment is
struggling to root itself as a new form of government across
all international societies.
And then I wonder what has happened to the people I used
to see every day. What’s become of their homes, their