Chapter 12 — They Won’t Win!

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 12:

Website chatbox (All communications translated from Bulgarian):

Dear Grandpa,

Mom was so pleased to hear that you and Grandma are safe and well. She worries out loud to us, a lot. There are stories almost every day in the text updates from General Stewart about how dangerous the rural areas are. We have heard about armed gangs and warlords controlling the country areas. There was also a story yesterday about how vigilante justice is alive and well out there, with people taking the law into their own hands and shooting trespassers on sight. I think they are just trying to scare people so they won’t leave the city.

We want you to be safe. Here, it is hard to tell if we should be scared. The only news we get is from the text messages from the Circle or General Stewart. There are sometimes short videos, but mostly it is photos with captions.

You can tell they are in the “win hearts and minds” phase of the martial law. This week General Stewart reintroduced some meat back to the ration. There are very small quantities of chicken and pork now available. He said that chickens are…