LAND OF THE FREE

It started with the internet lines going down. Everyone groaned about bad service but no one suspected anything. Why would they? This was the land of the free, after all, and that myth had sustained people through the slow encroachment of restrictions, the closing borders and the increasing pressures towards conformity.

Long distance lines followed. Understandable, after all, since we lived in the mountains, in a frontier town, you could always expect trouble with the phone lines. Yes, a few people questioned why the cell phones weren’t working and when we lost all phone lines, someone in the group joked that we were “in the black hole of communications”. Another voice replied “Next thing we know, there’ll be black helicopters flying overhead”, and everyone laughed….

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

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