Dark Kingdom

Theocrats in the Cabinet. Trump as President. White supremacists openly parading, carrying Nazi flags and executing Nazi salutes. Small men dreaming of creating their little kingdoms based on male dominance, the cross and flag…. Not a picture to inspire dreams of a future for the majority of us… Lucius is a composite of so many despots throughout history, and a blend of the kind of men currently in political offices and pulling strings behind the curtains..

DARK KINGDOM

Lucius Dark grinned, his lips tight, teeth tight, eyes hard and dark. This was going to be his best moment, when he would finally complete the wall around his kingdom and ensure his name would last a thousand years. All his life he’d known he was destined for this- to be a great man, a man whom others kneeled to. He’d come to realize the time was ripe for his destiny, and all the years of planning and preparation had finally come to fruition.

True, people had died, and a lot of misery had preceded this day, but now, finally, his position was secure and he was the accepted ruler. Now when he spoke, people listened and when he was done, they applauded, cheered. He knew he deserved this, because he’d felt all his life that he was more important than most people had understood. Before, they had ignored him, called him ignorant, told him he needed to better himself because “you’re never going to be able to keep up if you can’t read and don’t think learning is important”. He chuckled, wondering how those intellectuals and science folks thought about him now- bet they wish they’d shut up about all that environment stuff now, and all that crap about equality and tolerance…. Not that it mattered, with them all dead or working in the fields now, under the whips of his soldiers. He laughed out loud…..

To read the rest of the story, see the link to The Twilight Mirror and the New Dawn by Jordan Amar.