Chapter 29 — The Battle of Farm Supply Outlet

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 29 — The Battle of Farm Supply Outlet

Email:

Dear Grandma,

I am writing this email to you on Grandpa’s phone. I want to record the events as they are happening. It is weird to be able to use cell phones again after so long without them.

I want you not to blame Grandpa. He left before dawn in a convoy with the township militia and Circle soldiers. Everyone had on red and white Wisconsin Badger hats to distinguish them as Wisconsin militia. Grandpa didn’t know that Daisy, Jeremy, Malik, and I joined them by jumping in the back of someone’s pick-up truck. We blended right in with our own Wisconsin colors that Malik had gotten for us. It was probably a bad decision, but I didn’t want us to miss riding into the city to see the end of the Stewart regime and to see our families.

When the convoy made it to border bridge, we found it abandoned. We crossed the bridge and we are now stopped on the other side deciding what to do next. I decided to find Grandpa, and he told me to email you so you don’t worry. Grandpa said that the fighting is likely over and that…