Chapter 22 — Hasta la Victoria, Siempre!

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 22

Printed on computer paper (hand-delivered by Charlie):

Dear Benji,

Mom told me it was my turn to write. I miss you. I can’t wait until this is all over, and you come home, especially since we would probably get an increase in food and heating fuel rations. It would also be your turn to do the dishes. Just kidding on both of those — sort of. I really do miss you. Jorge and his family are worried sick about Daisy, too.

We have been busy. Jorge and I have recruited a bunch of our friends to be reporters for VeRU. People don’t suspect 11 year-old kids. We can go pretty much anywhere. We pretend to play soccer or street hockey or Frisbee, while we are actually on a stake-out. We can interview people and say it is for a school project when it is actually for our subversive newspaper. We have some great artists, too. We have one girl who created a funny picture of General Stewart for our cover two weeks ago. It was a simple line drawing, but everybody knew it was him. Since then, I have seen graffiti images all over the city using that drawing as inspiration. I feel proud to be…