Chapter 11 — Country Life

A serial novel in the form of correspondence among a family while the world as we know it collapses around us. I recommend you start at the Introduction:

https://medium.com/climate-for-change/climate-for-change-introduction-5331d5ab9313

But you can start anywhere you want.

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Chapter 11:

Email:

Dear Benjamin!

Bravo for getting your letters to us! I cannot tell you how pleased we are to hear from you, Mel, and your mom! Before I say anything else — please know we are all safe and healthy out here.

I’m sending this to your email, but I don’t think we should communicate via email any more. I have created a webpage routed through a Bulgarian server that you can access using this URL <Bulgarianbeets.com>. It looks like I am a beet farmer in Bulgaria who has created a webpage to sell beets to wholesale customers. Ignore the homepage and click on the “contact us” link. It should open up a chat box that we can use. Please have your mother (don’t use online translate!) translate all of your communications into Bulgarian before posting. All those years of your Grandma Eloise speaking Bulgarian in our home might finally come in handy. Also, if possible, make it so your computer looks like it is anywhere but St. Paul before posting. This all should put us in a far enough away corner of the Internet to evade routine detection. I have an agreement with our improvised mail carrier to bring our old…