Chapter 26 — The Battle for the Twin Cities

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 26 — The Battle for the Twin Cities

Email:

Dear Carol,

This is Charlie. I wish I had better news for you. I am taking a big risk even sending this email, but what the hell, I could die tomorrow.

This morning the prison director announced that she is being replaced and most of the staff, including me, are being immediately re-assigned to the front lines of the battle. The director told me afterwards that word had gotten back to General Stewart that she had been too nice to guests. He had sent a spy who reported back all of the changes we made to make prison life bearable. Stewart’s response was to send some of his black-shirted secret police on a bus up north to take over the camp. We all went back south on the same bus. They gave us one hour to pack. I couldn’t even say goodbye to Ben and Jeremy. We are now in a base camp just North of the Twin Cities; tomorrow we deploy to the front to join in the fight against the Circle.

If there is anything that you can do about getting your son out of the camp, I suggest you do it now. I don’t think the black shirts…