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Fleeing the Christian States of America a Dark Comedy
Fleeing the Christian States of America, a Dark Comedy
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         Sandra King and Maria Kimberly had been best friends since high school. They were both now high school teachers at Mount Zion High School in New Zion the capital of the Christian States of America, and they were along with everybody else in the Christian States celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Christian States of America, following the Civil War 2.0. It is the year 2050 in the Christian states which consisted of most of the former United States and Canada, where everybody lived under a Christian nationalist government.

         Many things were forbidden under the strict rules that governed the Christian States of America. In the Christian States, the LGBTQ community did not exist as homosexuality has long since been banned as fundamentally anti-Christian. Trans individuals did not exist legally in the Christian States where there were only two genders male and female assigned at birth, sex reassignment surgery was illegal, and everyone had to use gender-appropriate pronouns, and names, wear gender-appropriate clothing, and use gender-appropriate bathrooms. Drag shows were illegal as was pornography. Books and media on the LGBTQ community were illegal, and conversation therapy was common. Gay marriage did not exist, but there were underground illegal gay clubs mostly along the borderlands.

         The Christian States were openly white supremacist states where minorities knew their place as second-class citizens. Many worked as indentured servants or as slave laborers in prison camps. Both men and women served in the Christian nationalist army station along the border with the California Free Federation or the East Coast Federations, which were the two other main successor states of the former United States of America, and Canada.

         In total there were now 10 competing states and a Cold War was going on between the Christian states their outlines for the Utah Republic the Republic of Texas and the rest of the former United States of America - California Federation centered in San Francisco, (including California, Oregon, Washington, British Colombia, Southwest Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa) the Southwest Freedom States centered in Los Angeles, the Northeast States of America centered on New York City (including parts of Canada, New England, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC renamed Colombia), The Great Lakes Federation centered on Chicago, the Indian Nations of America, the French States of America centered in Quebec, and the Caribbean States of America centered in Miami, Florida.

         Sandra and Maria liked each other but only as best friends. Openly displaying affection in public would be unthinkable. It was just not done. Being considered to be a sexual deviant could result in imprisonment or exile to the California Federation. Sandra and Maria had a dilemma -they were approaching age 30 and were under considerable pressure to get married and retire from the workforce to have and raise children. But neither of them was ready, nor they had gone on the suggested blind dates but did not find any man attractive.

         One day, Sandra was at Maria’s apartment, and they started drinking wine together, which was one of their secrets. Alcohol, drugs, gambling, and sexual activity outside of marriage were all forbidden as being anti-Christian.

         On the streets of the city where signs and warnings everywhere warning people to be on the lookout for dangerous anti-Christian anti-government behavior.

         “If you see someone engaging in anti-Christian activities, report it to the authorities. It is your Christian duty. God is watching you, as is the government.”

“Remember the five “no’s” No sex outside of marriage, no alcohol, no drugs, no gambling, and no public display of affection. Report violators immediately.”

         Sandra was a bit more adventurous of the two of them. She had cousins in the Christian States but had not kept in touch as it was too dangerous to be in contact with people from the enemy nations. Her government social rating was 3.0 out of 5.00, Maria’s was a bit higher given her parents' status as heroes of the Civil War where her father had died during the war.

         Maria opened up to Sandra.

         “Sandra, I have been having weird disturbing dreams. In these dreams, you and I are naked and kissing and I like it. What does that mean? Does that mean I am under the influence of Satan? Could I be a secret lesbian? ”

         Sandra responded,

         “Maria, please don’t worry too much. You can tell me anything. You know that. You are safe here, and frankly, I have had similar dreams. But please be careful. If other people knew about our dreams, we could be denounced as lesbians and be sent to re-education camps. Or even executed.”

         The next night, Maria called Sandra up in a panic.

         “Sandra, our conversations have been recorded. The Secret Police interrogated me last night and have opened an unofficial investigation into us as suspected lesbians. The police played our conversations and wanted to know why we were not getting married.”

Sandra told Maria,

         “Don’t say anything more. Meet me at the park at the lake, and we can talk there—there are no cameras there. At least according to some of my students who gather there for “free talks.”

         Sandra hung up and reached out via the secret freedom net to her cousin Sam, who lived in San Francisco and was one of the conductors of the underground railroad that spirited dissidents from the Christian State to the California Federation.

         Sandra and Maria met that night and the next night they met Mr. Jones, an affable young African American man who would drive twenty people across the desert to California, but they had to leave that night as the secret police were on the move.

         They fled to California and never looked back. Once they arrived they became lesbian lovers and got a job helping other Christian State refugees adapt to the California Federation.


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* CHARACTERS: Your protagonists are two lovers ... or, rather, would-be lovers. They don't yet realize their mutual interest.
* PLOT PROBLEM: they are trying to communicate their affections without being caught, but complications keep arising
* GENRE: one of your genres must be COMEDY

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On March 15, 1885, one of Gilbert & Sullivan's best-known comic operas, The Mikado , opened in London. Its comic premise is that the emperor of Japan has outlawed flirting!

Here's an unusually 'prescriptive' prompt ... see if you're up to the challenge of writing for something specific, as is sometimes the requirement in the literary world.

Write a story or poem fulfilling the following:
* SETTING: a society in which, like in The Mikado, flirting is punishable by death.
* CHARACTERS: Your protagonists are two lovers ... or, rather, would-be lovers. They don't yet realize their mutual interest.
* PLOT PROBLEM: they are trying to communicate their affections without being caught, but complications keep arising
* GENRE: one of your genres must be COMEDY

Beyond that, though ... be creative; make the result uniquely your own. For, think of an unusual twist on the setting (alien? dystopian? afterlife?) Etc.
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