Chapter 25 — Fall

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 25 — Fall

Handwritten or printed on computer paper (delivered back and forth by Charlie):

Dear Mom and Mel and Grandma and Grandpa,

It has been months since I was last able to write. Charlie was just gone one day, and after that we didn’t have pens and paper or any means of getting a letter to you. I am starting to understand how cultures developed complicated oral histories before writing was developed. We have been keeping a history of the camp in our cabin. We tell the same stories every week about the people who have died or been transferred. We say their names and talk about important things they did.

We have been tracking the days and months by making hash marks in a spot behind one of the beds. By our count, Jeremy I have been here almost a year. We are the old timers.

It is cold again. We have started to have frosty mornings, but the prison director has not authorized fire in the wood stove yet. After last winter, they are cautious about running out of firewood again.

The days have been the same. Day after day we go out on a work crew in the morning and then hang…