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August 14 - October 14, 2020
Jeff King—
Scolari—
Channa...
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Crystal Blair.
She ripped that guard’s throat out with her teeth!
Cody Smith.
the Mora sisters—
The matter of separating children from parents, however, might have been managed almost legally.
It shouldn’t have happened, in spite of all the chaos that had gone before. Things were healing. People like my mother were starting small businesses, living simply, becoming more prosperous. Crime was down in spite of the sad things that happened to the Noyer family and to Uncle Marc. Even my mother said that things were improving.
Yet Andrew Steele Jarret was able to scare, divide, and bully people, first into electing him President, then into letting him fix the country for them.
He didn’t get to do everything he wanted to do. He was capable of much greater fascism. So we...
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In less than a year, Jarret went from being our savior, almost the Second Coming in some people’s minds, to being an incompetent son of a bitch who was wasting our substance on things that didn’t matter.
Kamaria,
Kayce Alexander.
Madison Alexander
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2035
Allie and her lover Mary Sullivan
Beth and Jessica Faircloth.
Reverend Chandler Benton,
Adela Ortiz
Cristina Cho.
They look at us with unmistakable hatred, disgust, and contempt, and they insist that it’s love that they feel.
Ed Gama
Teal,
Human decency is a sin here.
I can’t stand this. I can’t. I don’t care if they kill me. I will break free of this or I will be dead.
The Faircloths have managed to ruin garbage.
Noriko, Cristina Cho, and the Mora girls.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2035
Six “teachers,” four captive women, and all of our collars were dead.
the weather, and our “teachers’ ” own stupidity has freed us.
Travis and Natividad, Mike and Noriko, others of Earthseed, the Gamas, and the Sullivans
somehow found one another.
Earthseed made no such lethal mistake. We went into the cabins to arm ourselves, to rid ourselves of our “teachers,” and to cut off our damned collars.
never felt their deaths. And I have never been so eager and so glad to kill people.
More important, then we had wire cutters.
nothing was more tamperproof than a functioning collar.
Bring the wire cutters!
I went back into the Kardos cabin for the wire cutters.
Alan Faircloth, the father of Beth and Jessica,
The problem with Earthseed has always been that it isn’t a very comforting belief system.
And the caches!
Garberville, Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad,
This could only be deliberate. They feared being found out. Was it us they feared, or someone else?
I wanted to go to our secret caches
This time, though, it’s too late for fire to be the destroyer that we remembered. The things that we had created and loved had already been destroyed. This time, the fires only cleansed.
the Faircloth boys.
Ramon Figueroa Castro
Christian America was, at first, much more a refuge for the ignorant and the intolerant than it should have been.
The believers
