As long as it’s not too saltyParticularly if its Barb!!
Metzger will make sure things go from bad to Wurst for @Barbaria1
She's such a Schwein, isn't she?
That's not the worst thing that can happen when you raise your shackled wrist above your head to prevent a blast of water.As she was hit, Barb raised her shackled arms and held her open hands in an instinctive but futile attempt to divert or lessen the impact on her face and breasts.
How the mighty have fallen. Still don't feel sorry for her yet, but I'm sure you'll find a way to redeem her.To her left, Sue lay on her side, sodden red hair covering her face, and teeth chattering as she curled her body into a fetal position.
This should solve the overpopulation and food shortage issues right quick. Anyone who complains gets eaten.I’ll wager that the top hats are going to be demanding tomorrow that your people start expanding that capacity. It’s not only the rioters who who will swing from a noose if found guilty, it’s also anyone found to have encouraged and helped them plan their crime.”
A new character! I love it! The Barbalicious Dolcettish Dystopian Cinematic Universe expands... ..It was past midnight when Rose Whitaker closed the novel she had been reading...
Ah yes, Miss, the Complaints department is down the stairs, along the corridor, through the rotating blades and on into the processing and packaging facility.Anyone who complains gets eaten.
Music to my ears!a loud and confused mixture of screams, squeals and curses
In tough jobs like these, a sense of glee is important!the gleeful laughter of the guards
Love men who enjoy their work!They also quite plainly got a kick out of targeting the most intimate parts of their helpless victims’ bodies.
Now we see where this whole tragedy started. What a total waste of educational time. The title itself is an oxymoron.my senior level course ‘The emancipated American woman’.”
And very wide regulations they are! Where can we get a copy of the recording?FNPA Regulations require that I not let you out of my sight
Budget cuts led to a seriously underprepared facility. Maybe some spitting and roasting can be used to supplement the gallows?I dunno, maybe a dozen.
For once, FNPA was on the wrong side of the barbecue.two FNPA officers lost their lives, burned to death by a Molotov that ignited the fuel in their truck.
Fantastic stuff!! Loving the Rose sub-plot.. Getting a little more dystopian and a little less dolcettish (and I haven’t forgotten the word “demise” is also in the title!)8.
Rose kept her back to FNPA Special Investigations Officer Newman as she rummaged through an open dresser drawer to find some clean underwear. It gave her the creeps to have this strange man sitting, with his body cam, at the edge of her unmade bed, watching her get dressed.
At the same time her mind was racing over the implications of the line of questioning Newman had pursued just minutes before, out in her living room.
Could she potentially be held responsible for aiding and abetting her students in planning their ill-fated protest action against the annual FNPA cull of female high school graduates? An action of that sort was certainly discussed in her preschool on a number of occasions during group meetings, and it certainly was true she had done nothing in those meetings to warn her students against taking such action.
Could that be interpreted by the FNPA investigators to be a tacit form of approval? And if so, what kind of penalty would be imposed? She knew that rioting ... and that’s what the protest at 631 Maple Drive apparently had devolved into ... was a capital offense. But she was not actually a participant in the actual crime, was she? After all, she didn’t even know about the riot until Officer Newman informed her of it.
So, logically speaking, she might well get off with being identified merely as an accessory, which surely would carry a lesser punishment ... most likely a public flogging or caning. Just the same, that would be awful enough, for it would be videotaped and aired repeatedly on the popularly-viewed, government-run ‘Judicial Punishment’ media outlet. And such a conviction would almost certainly trigger an immediate termination of her employment as a teacher at Hamilton, along with a career-ending black listing on the education job market.
Behind her, Officer Newman cleared his throat. Startled, Rose wondered how long she had been frozen in thought, her hand motionless in the open dresser drawer.
Quickly she picked out a matching black bra and panties set, turned around to face Newman, and said, “should I wear a dress or something else?”
“Doesn’t really matter. Just get a move on it, okay?”
She nodded, walked over to the closet and pulled out a gay floral print on a dark blue background summer dress, held it to her and sad coyly, “What do you think?”
“It’s fine.”
“Great. Now I’ll just pop into the bathroom, get dressed and freshen up a little.”
“Nice try, but no. You’ll do it right here where I can keep an eye on you.”
“But, there’s only one way in or out of the bathroom. It’s not like I can get away or anything.”
“Just do it, Ms. Whitaker.”
“Well, what if you look away, and just let your body cam watch?”
“Do it! Now!”
“Alright, alright!” she grumbled, stepping back over to the dresser, laying her underthings and dress in top of it, and then with her back to him, dropping her robe to the floor. Reaching for her panties, she bent over, stepped into them and pulled them up over hips.
“Nice ass!” admired Newman, his voice a little husky sounding.
“Isn’t that kind of commentary rather unprofessional for a man in your position?”
“On the contrary, we in the FNPA are expected, in the course of our duties, to be keen observers and evaluators of the female body,” he quipped.
“I see,” she replied as she reached for her bra, and was about to put it on but stopped short when she realized that the dresser mirror offered him a full frontal view of her nakedness, which made turning her back to him pointless.
Spinning about to face him, she made a deliberate show of putting on her bra while staring him down with such a look of total contempt that he finally looked away.
“I’m not a bad man, Ms. Whitaker. I’m just doing my job.” he said softly. “Under different circumstances we could be good friends, perhaps even lovers.”
“I doubt that very much, Officer Newman.”
“Whatever you say, ma’am. Now please finish dressing because we need to be on our way.”
Several minutes later they were back in the living room. She grabbed her shoulder bag, paused for a moment to feed the goldfish, searched for her sandals, which she had left under the coffee table, and before leaving the apartment allowed him to handcuff her wrists in front of her body when he insisted he must do so.
He led her to his car, and guided her into the back seat.
“How far is it?” she asked, as he pulled away from the curb.
“It’s around a hundred and twenty kilometers from here to Goose River. It won’t take too long this time of night. Sit back and get some rest while you can, Ms. Whitaker.
*************
FNPA Criminal Investigations Sergeant, Matt Surly, and his crew were ready and waiting when the police vans full of arrested protesters rolled into the receiving area at Goose River Center.
There were six vans. Matt and three of his people ran to the back of the first one and flung open the back doors to find a solid mass of humanity crammed inside. The arrested protesters had been packed in like sardines, so tight they could scarcely move. The stench from so many bodies pressed together in stifling heat was overwhelming.
Matt tugged at the arm of the first body he could get his hands on, a blond girl, and pulled her free from the mass. She fell limply into his arms. Looking down at her as he stepped back, he saw that she was half naked, wearing nothing more than a pair of cut-off denims. At first he thought she might be dead, but she had a pulse and as he carried over to a place where he could set her down, he saw her eyelids flutter.
“Hey! What’s your name?” he said.
“Cindy,” she replied.
“Okay, Cindy. I think you’re going to be alright. Get some rest. I’m going back now for your friends.”
“Find Paige, please,” she said, gripping his hand tightly before letting go. “Please find her!”
Feverishly he and his people worked to empty the vans, sorting out the living who were helped over to a staging area, from the dead, who were piled in a heap on a flatbed wagon. He felt a certain amount of revulsion over the latter, despite the fact that humans dying was an inescapable part of his work. But this was a case in which the suffering and dying resulted from a purposeful act of vengeance. It didn’t take a genius to see that rather than driving directly to Goose River, these vans must have been driven around in circles, or allowed to sit idle during the heat of the afternoon, just to create living-hell-like conditions for those poor kids jammed inside.
By the time the unloading was completed and the survivors transferred from the staging area to group holding cells, the first rays of dawn could be seen in the eastern sky. Returning to his desk, Matt sat back and threw his feet up on the desktop. Opening a fresh can of beer, he downed half of it in a single quaff.
After a while one of his subordinates came by to drop off a clipboard with a final report on the unloading.
“So what’s the final tally,” asked Matt wearily.
“A hundred and nine living, and thirty-seven dead,” was the reply. “Bad business, eh?”
“Yeah. Thought it might be something like that.”
“What should we do with the dead ones?”
“Lay them out in Block B until tomorrow. They’re gonna have to be identified somehow.”
**********
Following their hosing down, Barb and the others in her group were marched to one of the dozens of wooden barracks that housed the sows of Goose River Center until they were sent to the roasting pits.
Barb, Sue and Kristin were assigned according to the IDs to one of the three tiered bunks in Barrack 2B. Barb got the top bunk, and Sue the middle one. Kristin occupied the lower one. The three Grainger High girls were assigned to an adjoining tier.
Barb climbed up to the top bunk, a bit awkwardly ... nothing being simple with shackled wrists ... and rolled over the side rail and onto the thin straw-filled mattress. There was a pillow at the head of the bunk and a single threadbare blanket lay folded on top of the pillow.
Before long the overhead lights were extinguished, and in the dim light of a few side lamps everyone in the place quieted down. Barb rested her head on the pillow, covered herself over, and was about to close her eyes, when Sue’s face appeared at the side rail.
“Don’t you think we ought to be trying to get some rest?” whispered Barb.
“Yeah, sure, Barb. But I wanted to ask you whether you think we can trust those Grainger High girls?”
“I dunno, Sue. Possibly. Why?”
“Because, I’m cooking up a plan to get us out of here, and we may need to involve the Graingers.”
“You are? What’s the point. You can’t fight the FNPA, Sue. They’re too powerful. Look what happened to my friends who staged a protest? It was a friggin disaster!”
“Who said anything about staging a protest. Your friends were stupid. You don’t fight the system, Barb. That never succeeds. What you need to do is figure out how to work the system ... not fight it!I’ve been doing just that all my life and look where it’s gotten me!”
“Same place as me, Sue. Sitting in an FNPA barrack waiting your turn to be spit roasted.”
“Barb, I’m going to get us out of here. Give me a little time and I’ll figure something out, but It’ll require some team work ... you, me, Kristin, and possibly the Graingers ... to pull it off successfully.”
“Yeah, Barb” piped up Kristin, who had been listening. “You know, it’s like school spirit, being true to your team!”
TO BE CONTINUED
This story of Barb's reminded me of this Dolcett pic from his "Feast Day" story.
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suddenly it all makes sense...
Very good Barb, you are on top form with this one!8.
Rose kept her back to FNPA Special Investigations Officer Newman as she rummaged through an open dresser drawer to find some clean underwear. It gave her the creeps to have this strange man sitting, with his body cam, at the edge of her unmade bed, watching her get dressed.
At the same time her mind was racing over the implications of the line of questioning Newman had pursued just minutes before, out in her living room.
Could she potentially be held responsible for aiding and abetting her students in planning their ill-fated protest action against the annual FNPA cull of female high school graduates? An action of that sort was certainly discussed in her preschool on a number of occasions during group meetings, and it certainly was true she had done nothing in those meetings to warn her students against taking such action.
Could that be interpreted by the FNPA investigators to be a tacit form of approval? And if so, what kind of penalty would be imposed? She knew that rioting ... and that’s what the protest at 631 Maple Drive apparently had devolved into ... was a capital offense. But she was not actually a participant in the actual crime, was she? After all, she didn’t even know about the riot until Officer Newman informed her of it.
So, logically speaking, she might well get off with being identified merely as an accessory, which surely would carry a lesser punishment ... most likely a public flogging or caning. Just the same, that would be awful enough, for it would be videotaped and aired repeatedly on the popularly-viewed, government-run ‘Judicial Punishment’ media outlet. And such a conviction would almost certainly trigger an immediate termination of her employment as a teacher at Hamilton, along with a career-ending black listing on the education job market.
Behind her, Officer Newman cleared his throat. Startled, Rose wondered how long she had been frozen in thought, her hand motionless in the open dresser drawer.
Quickly she picked out a matching black bra and panties set, turned around to face Newman, and said, “should I wear a dress or something else?”
“Doesn’t really matter. Just get a move on it, okay?”
She nodded, walked over to the closet and pulled out a gay floral print on a dark blue background summer dress, held it to her and sad coyly, “What do you think?”
“It’s fine.”
“Great. Now I’ll just pop into the bathroom, get dressed and freshen up a little.”
“Nice try, but no. You’ll do it right here where I can keep an eye on you.”
“But, there’s only one way in or out of the bathroom. It’s not like I can get away or anything.”
“Just do it, Ms. Whitaker.”
“Well, what if you look away, and just let your body cam watch?”
“Do it! Now!”
“Alright, alright!” she grumbled, stepping back over to the dresser, laying her underthings and dress in top of it, and then with her back to him, dropping her robe to the floor. Reaching for her panties, she bent over, stepped into them and pulled them up over hips.
“Nice ass!” admired Newman, his voice a little husky sounding.
“Isn’t that kind of commentary rather unprofessional for a man in your position?”
“On the contrary, we in the FNPA are expected, in the course of our duties, to be keen observers and evaluators of the female body,” he quipped.
“I see,” she replied as she reached for her bra, and was about to put it on but stopped short when she realized that the dresser mirror offered him a full frontal view of her nakedness, which made turning her back to him pointless.
Spinning about to face him, she made a deliberate show of putting on her bra while staring him down with such a look of total contempt that he finally looked away.
“I’m not a bad man, Ms. Whitaker. I’m just doing my job.” he said softly. “Under different circumstances we could be good friends, perhaps even lovers.”
“I doubt that very much, Officer Newman.”
“Whatever you say, ma’am. Now please finish dressing because we need to be on our way.”
Several minutes later they were back in the living room. She grabbed her shoulder bag, paused for a moment to feed the goldfish, searched for her sandals, which she had left under the coffee table, and before leaving the apartment allowed him to handcuff her wrists in front of her body when he insisted he must do so.
He led her to his car, and guided her into the back seat.
“How far is it?” she asked, as he pulled away from the curb.
“It’s around a hundred and twenty kilometers from here to Goose River. It won’t take too long this time of night. Sit back and get some rest while you can, Ms. Whitaker.
*************
FNPA Criminal Investigations Sergeant, Matt Surly, and his crew were ready and waiting when the police vans full of arrested protesters rolled into the receiving area at Goose River Center.
There were six vans. Matt and three of his people ran to the back of the first one and flung open the back doors to find a solid mass of humanity crammed inside. The arrested protesters had been packed in like sardines, so tight they could scarcely move. The stench from so many bodies pressed together in stifling heat was overwhelming.
Matt tugged at the arm of the first body he could get his hands on, a blond girl, and pulled her free from the mass. She fell limply into his arms. Looking down at her as he stepped back, he saw that she was half naked, wearing nothing more than a pair of cut-off denims. At first he thought she might be dead, but she had a pulse and as he carried over to a place where he could set her down, he saw her eyelids flutter.
“Hey! What’s your name?” he said.
“Cindy,” she replied.
“Okay, Cindy. I think you’re going to be alright. Get some rest. I’m going back now for your friends.”
“Find Paige, please,” she said, gripping his hand tightly before letting go. “Please find her!”
Feverishly he and his people worked to empty the vans, sorting out the living who were helped over to a staging area, from the dead, who were piled in a heap on a flatbed wagon. He felt a certain amount of revulsion over the latter, despite the fact that humans dying was an inescapable part of his work. But this was a case in which the suffering and dying resulted from a purposeful act of vengeance. It didn’t take a genius to see that rather than driving directly to Goose River, these vans must have been driven around in circles, or allowed to sit idle during the heat of the afternoon, just to create living-hell-like conditions for those poor kids jammed inside.
By the time the unloading was completed and the survivors transferred from the staging area to group holding cells, the first rays of dawn could be seen in the eastern sky. Returning to his desk, Matt sat back and threw his feet up on the desktop. Opening a fresh can of beer, he downed half of it in a single quaff.
After a while one of his subordinates came by to drop off a clipboard with a final report on the unloading.
“So what’s the final tally,” asked Matt wearily.
“A hundred and nine living, and thirty-seven dead,” was the reply. “Bad business, eh?”
“Yeah. Thought it might be something like that.”
“What should we do with the dead ones?”
“Lay them out in Block B until tomorrow. They’re gonna have to be identified somehow.”
**********
Following their hosing down, Barb and the others in her group were marched to one of the dozens of wooden barracks that housed the sows of Goose River Center until they were sent to the roasting pits.
Barb, Sue and Kristin were assigned according to the IDs to one of the three tiered bunks in Barrack 2B. Barb got the top bunk, and Sue the middle one. Kristin occupied the lower one. The three Grainger High girls were assigned to an adjoining tier.
Barb climbed up to the top bunk, a bit awkwardly ... nothing being simple with shackled wrists ... and rolled over the side rail and onto the thin straw-filled mattress. There was a pillow at the head of the bunk and a single threadbare blanket lay folded on top of the pillow.
Before long the overhead lights were extinguished, and in the dim light of a few side lamps everyone in the place quieted down. Barb rested her head on the pillow, covered herself over, and was about to close her eyes, when Sue’s face appeared at the side rail.
“Don’t you think we ought to be trying to get some rest?” whispered Barb.
“Yeah, sure, Barb. But I wanted to ask you whether you think we can trust those Grainger High girls?”
“I dunno, Sue. Possibly. Why?”
“Because, I’m cooking up a plan to get us out of here, and we may need to involve the Graingers.”
“You are? What’s the point. You can’t fight the FNPA, Sue. They’re too powerful. Look what happened to my friends who staged a protest? It was a friggin disaster!”
“Who said anything about staging a protest. Your friends were stupid. You don’t fight the system, Barb. That never succeeds. What you need to do is figure out how to work the system ... not fight it!I’ve been doing just that all my life and look where it’s gotten me!”
“Same place as me, Sue. Sitting in an FNPA barrack waiting your turn to be spit roasted.”
“Barb, I’m going to get us out of here. Give me a little time and I’ll figure something out, but It’ll require some team work ... you, me, Kristin, and possibly the Graingers ... to pull it off successfully.”
“Yeah, Barb” piped up Kristin, who had been listening. “You know, it’s like school spirit, being true to your team!”
TO BE CONTINUED
I'm ok if this doesn't end in erotic spit roasting. I'm invested in these girls and their escape plan. Let's work some systems!8.
Rose kept her back to FNPA Special Investigations Officer Newman as she rummaged through an open dresser drawer to find some clean underwear. It gave her the creeps to have this strange man sitting, with his body cam, at the edge of her unmade bed, watching her get dressed.
At the same time her mind was racing over the implications of the line of questioning Newman had pursued just minutes before, out in her living room.
Could she potentially be held responsible for aiding and abetting her students in planning their ill-fated protest action against the annual FNPA cull of female high school graduates? An action of that sort was certainly discussed in her preschool on a number of occasions during group meetings, and it certainly was true she had done nothing in those meetings to warn her students against taking such action.
Could that be interpreted by the FNPA investigators to be a tacit form of approval? And if so, what kind of penalty would be imposed? She knew that rioting ... and that’s what the protest at 631 Maple Drive apparently had devolved into ... was a capital offense. But she was not actually a participant in the actual crime, was she? After all, she didn’t even know about the riot until Officer Newman informed her of it.
So, logically speaking, she might well get off with being identified merely as an accessory, which surely would carry a lesser punishment ... most likely a public flogging or caning. Just the same, that would be awful enough, for it would be videotaped and aired repeatedly on the popularly-viewed, government-run ‘Judicial Punishment’ media outlet. And such a conviction would almost certainly trigger an immediate termination of her employment as a teacher at Hamilton, along with a career-ending black listing on the education job market.
Behind her, Officer Newman cleared his throat. Startled, Rose wondered how long she had been frozen in thought, her hand motionless in the open dresser drawer.
Quickly she picked out a matching black bra and panties set, turned around to face Newman, and said, “should I wear a dress or something else?”
“Doesn’t really matter. Just get a move on it, okay?”
She nodded, walked over to the closet and pulled out a gay floral print on a dark blue background summer dress, held it to her and sad coyly, “What do you think?”
“It’s fine.”
“Great. Now I’ll just pop into the bathroom, get dressed and freshen up a little.”
“Nice try, but no. You’ll do it right here where I can keep an eye on you.”
“But, there’s only one way in or out of the bathroom. It’s not like I can get away or anything.”
“Just do it, Ms. Whitaker.”
“Well, what if you look away, and just let your body cam watch?”
“Do it! Now!”
“Alright, alright!” she grumbled, stepping back over to the dresser, laying her underthings and dress in top of it, and then with her back to him, dropping her robe to the floor. Reaching for her panties, she bent over, stepped into them and pulled them up over hips.
“Nice ass!” admired Newman, his voice a little husky sounding.
“Isn’t that kind of commentary rather unprofessional for a man in your position?”
“On the contrary, we in the FNPA are expected, in the course of our duties, to be keen observers and evaluators of the female body,” he quipped.
“I see,” she replied as she reached for her bra, and was about to put it on but stopped short when she realized that the dresser mirror offered him a full frontal view of her nakedness, which made turning her back to him pointless.
Spinning about to face him, she made a deliberate show of putting on her bra while staring him down with such a look of total contempt that he finally looked away.
“I’m not a bad man, Ms. Whitaker. I’m just doing my job.” he said softly. “Under different circumstances we could be good friends, perhaps even lovers.”
“I doubt that very much, Officer Newman.”
“Whatever you say, ma’am. Now please finish dressing because we need to be on our way.”
Several minutes later they were back in the living room. She grabbed her shoulder bag, paused for a moment to feed the goldfish, searched for her sandals, which she had left under the coffee table, and before leaving the apartment allowed him to handcuff her wrists in front of her body when he insisted he must do so.
He led her to his car, and guided her into the back seat.
“How far is it?” she asked, as he pulled away from the curb.
“It’s around a hundred and twenty kilometers from here to Goose River. It won’t take too long this time of night. Sit back and get some rest while you can, Ms. Whitaker.
*************
FNPA Criminal Investigations Sergeant, Matt Surly, and his crew were ready and waiting when the police vans full of arrested protesters rolled into the receiving area at Goose River Center.
There were six vans. Matt and three of his people ran to the back of the first one and flung open the back doors to find a solid mass of humanity crammed inside. The arrested protesters had been packed in like sardines, so tight they could scarcely move. The stench from so many bodies pressed together in stifling heat was overwhelming.
Matt tugged at the arm of the first body he could get his hands on, a blond girl, and pulled her free from the mass. She fell limply into his arms. Looking down at her as he stepped back, he saw that she was half naked, wearing nothing more than a pair of cut-off denims. At first he thought she might be dead, but she had a pulse and as he carried over to a place where he could set her down, he saw her eyelids flutter.
“Hey! What’s your name?” he said.
“Cindy,” she replied.
“Okay, Cindy. I think you’re going to be alright. Get some rest. I’m going back now for your friends.”
“Find Paige, please,” she said, gripping his hand tightly before letting go. “Please find her!”
Feverishly he and his people worked to empty the vans, sorting out the living who were helped over to a staging area, from the dead, who were piled in a heap on a flatbed wagon. He felt a certain amount of revulsion over the latter, despite the fact that humans dying was an inescapable part of his work. But this was a case in which the suffering and dying resulted from a purposeful act of vengeance. It didn’t take a genius to see that rather than driving directly to Goose River, these vans must have been driven around in circles, or allowed to sit idle during the heat of the afternoon, just to create living-hell-like conditions for those poor kids jammed inside.
By the time the unloading was completed and the survivors transferred from the staging area to group holding cells, the first rays of dawn could be seen in the eastern sky. Returning to his desk, Matt sat back and threw his feet up on the desktop. Opening a fresh can of beer, he downed half of it in a single quaff.
After a while one of his subordinates came by to drop off a clipboard with a final report on the unloading.
“So what’s the final tally,” asked Matt wearily.
“A hundred and nine living, and thirty-seven dead,” was the reply. “Bad business, eh?”
“Yeah. Thought it might be something like that.”
“What should we do with the dead ones?”
“Lay them out in Block B until tomorrow. They’re gonna have to be identified somehow.”
**********
Following their hosing down, Barb and the others in her group were marched to one of the dozens of wooden barracks that housed the sows of Goose River Center until they were sent to the roasting pits.
Barb, Sue and Kristin were assigned according to the IDs to one of the three tiered bunks in Barrack 2B. Barb got the top bunk, and Sue the middle one. Kristin occupied the lower one. The three Grainger High girls were assigned to an adjoining tier.
Barb climbed up to the top bunk, a bit awkwardly ... nothing being simple with shackled wrists ... and rolled over the side rail and onto the thin straw-filled mattress. There was a pillow at the head of the bunk and a single threadbare blanket lay folded on top of the pillow.
Before long the overhead lights were extinguished, and in the dim light of a few side lamps everyone in the place quieted down. Barb rested her head on the pillow, covered herself over, and was about to close her eyes, when Sue’s face appeared at the side rail.
“Don’t you think we ought to be trying to get some rest?” whispered Barb.
“Yeah, sure, Barb. But I wanted to ask you whether you think we can trust those Grainger High girls?”
“I dunno, Sue. Possibly. Why?”
“Because, I’m cooking up a plan to get us out of here, and we may need to involve the Graingers.”
“You are? What’s the point. You can’t fight the FNPA, Sue. They’re too powerful. Look what happened to my friends who staged a protest? It was a friggin disaster!”
“Who said anything about staging a protest. Your friends were stupid. You don’t fight the system, Barb. That never succeeds. What you need to do is figure out how to work the system ... not fight it!I’ve been doing just that all my life and look where it’s gotten me!”
“Same place as me, Sue. Sitting in an FNPA barrack waiting your turn to be spit roasted.”
“Barb, I’m going to get us out of here. Give me a little time and I’ll figure something out, but It’ll require some team work ... you, me, Kristin, and possibly the Graingers ... to pull it off successfully.”
“Yeah, Barb” piped up Kristin, who had been listening. “You know, it’s like school spirit, being true to your team!”
TO BE CONTINUED