Our Second Civil War: Parody & Satire
By R. L. Saunders and C. C. Brower
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Our Second Civil War was over in minutes - while the conflict took decades. As in all wars, both sides lost heavily and then proclaimed victory.
I knew this all too well, serving as a paramedic to patch up their wounded and dying.
I'd gotten myself into 'Cagga to solve my nightmares. After I'd sworn off coming back into the cities where the only real violence happened.
She was in my dreams every night, and turned them into the same hell on earth she was experiencing.
Because she only wanted to be rescued from a fate and destiny she could not control. In the old days, it was called human trafficking, but in our time it was called normal.
Just because she was pretty, single, and defenseless.
And once I found her, we'd only have until sundown...
Excerpt:
I could hear her scream in my dreams. Every night. Who she was and how to find her was a mystery.
But I knew I had to try. Or the dreams would never let me sleep normal again.
Not that it was going to be easy. Ever since the Great Secession, it was nearly impossible to get people into (or out of) the big city areas. You could get news out of their jammed "acronym media networks" easier.
But 'Cagga was less impossible than most. And that was where my dreams told me to search first.
I was here to get those dreams out of my sleep.
I'd been called many times, for many things, but this was the most annoying one I'd ever had to live. Not that you'd call it living. Because sleep was one continuing nightmare for me. Not really a lot of sleep, just a lot of waking in a cold sweat, plus a lot of tossing and turning. I even had to get my own room because of all the yelling I'd do.
So going to 'Cagga was for my own survival, as well as anyone around me.
Lots of smiles got me through their gates. They didn't want to shake my hand, but waved me through from behind their glass guard booth. Us "unclean" were only going to another slightly less unclean space - where the guards never went.
Just to find this woman or girl or whoever is keeping me awake at night.
She was in here somewhere. I hoped.
R. L. Saunders
R. L. has always had a hard-edged humor. But he's been working on toning it back when it interferes with the straight entertainment value of the story he's bringing to life. Saunders likes his parables exciting and his sharp wit is often a surprise. Of course, there are contemporary mentions you have to keep an eye out for... Satire is like that, he says - no fun if you don't deflate an over-blown ego every now and then...
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Our Second Civil War - R. L. Saunders
Our Second Civil War
By R. L. Saunders and C. C. Brower
This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.
OUR SECOND CIVIL WAR
First edition. August 12, 2018.
Copyright © 2018 R. L. Saunders and C. C. Brower.
ISBN: 978-1386056256
Written by R. L. Saunders and C. C. Brower.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
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I
I COULD HEAR HER SCREAM in my dreams. Every night. Who she was and how to find her was a mystery.
But I knew I had to try. Or the dreams would never let me sleep normal again.
Not that it was going to be easy. Ever since the Great Secession, it was nearly impossible to get people into (or out of) the big city areas. You could get news out of their jammed acronym media networks
easier.
But 'Cagga was less impossible than most. And that was where my dreams told me to search first.
I was here to get those dreams out of my sleep.
I'd been called many times, for many things, but this was the most annoying one I'd ever had to live. Not that you'd call it living. Because sleep was one continuing nightmare for me. Not really a lot of sleep, just a lot of waking in a cold sweat, plus a lot of tossing and turning. I even had to get my own room because of all the yelling I'd do.
So going to 'Cagga was for my own survival, as well as anyone around me.
Lots of smiles got me through 'Cagga's gates. The guards didn't want to shake my hand, but waved me through behind the glass in their guard booth. Us unclean
were only going to another slightly less unclean space - where the guards never went.
Just to find this woman or girl or whoever is keeping me awake at night.
She was in here somewhere. I hoped.
LET ME BRING YOU UP to speed:
I'd been a foot-soldier in those civil wars, and had become a Brownie in self-defense. Because I wanted to help people. Got trained in first aid and counseling.
There had been decades of guerrilla warfare through the corporate media and their supporters in the East and West Megalopolises. That was also where the social
networks had their headquarters - of course both the media
and socials
only allowed what they wanted spread.
Those lies caused violence, and someone was needed to patch them up. Or so I thought at the time.
The more people found out that they were being depressed and strung along, they quit social media and quit corporate news. Life became easier and simpler, more peaceful that way.
Which meant they were training everyone who saw through it to simply ignore them. Sad. Yuge fail.
People tend to move to where they find people who think like themselves. So it became that cities had higher densities of victimized
minorities. While independent cusses
grew their food and shipped their orders out of warehouses, and drove their trucks for overnight
delivery. Those independents
lived outside the cities, and for awhile were like the pony express
of moving orders to re-distribution
centers just outside them. But that only lasted for awhile, until the walls were built.
People