Chapter 30 — The Push to the General’s Mansion

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 30 — The Push to the General’s Mansion

Email:

Dear Grandma,

We just woke up to the sound of explosions. Our watchers outside Farm Supply Outlet told us that shells were coming in from about half a mile away on the other side of the old interstate freeway. For now, nothing has been hit, except there are a few craters in the parking lot near our trucks. We are going to make a run for it and get in the trucks and get moving before they can zero in on our position.

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Ben,

I found out some news from your mother. It wasn’t a fake when all those people surrendered. That was real. The airdrop of your family’s underground newspaper might have helped some people decide not to fight, but it wasn’t the only reason. Carol said really no one wants to fight and die in a war against other Americans.

In the hours after the battle began, the General sent out many texts. He said that the Circle was coming, and they were going to kill everybody unless we pulled together and protected our New State. He told everyone…