Ted and the group of thousands limped their way back home through the same boring suburbs they had tramped through earlier that morning. Ted, nursing his wounds from his encounter with the prosecutor, was inflicting a further beating upon himself inside his own mind. All of the organizing, all of…
Ted, followed by absolutely everyone, burst through the doors of the court house. Forming a human wall they pushed and pushed past anyone and anything in their path. Their cause was helped greatly by the fact that the security was basically rendered powerless due to anti weapon laws designed to…
A black bow tie poked through the fog. On a dreary morning in the middle of the week, well it could have been a weekend. Nobody was very good at telling time at this point. That tie was attached to the suit worn by an extremely fearful and squeamish leader…
As with any triumph in life, time has a way of slowly causing it to become almost irrelevant. The weeks stretched into months. Christmas passed without so much as a nod. Where were they going to travel? It was a pandemic, and all they had were each other. Ted, Allison,…
Emerging from the tent, Lawson squinted in the mid-afternoon sunlight. He was fully clothed, much to Ted’s relief. “What are you doing staring at me? We’ve got to go find Vernon so that you can make something of yourself.” Lawson said. “Come on!” Ted appreciated Lawson’s initial no nonsense manner. …
The tents dotted the wasteland that was the edge of town like a fresh white canvas. Ted and Allison climbed a barren hill and saw the true scope of the situation. Thousands of tents as far as the eye could see. They could see many homeless milling about, trying to…
Ted and Allison ran through the metropolis. As dawn turned to morning they had seen all there was to see of the city as the tall buildings reluctantly gave way to suburbia. Picket fences, split entry homes, and bungalows as far as the eye could see. It was as if…
Ted decided to spend the night on that park bench. He stretched out. The wood was weathered and full of splinters from being exposed to the weather. This was the most dangerous situation Ted had voluntarily put himself through. Voluntarily was not the right word for it. If Lars had…
Ted wandered up the street toward his apartment. He felt discouraged. Sure he had managed to remember to do his part for society, but it wasn’t enough. It would never be enough. It seemed to Ted that no matter how hard he tried to excel in life, he had to…
Ted did not sleep at all that night. Stepping outside after one of his predictable morning routines, Ted walked into a wall of fog. This was unusual, but for Ted this day would be slightly different anyway. He was not going to work. He was headed to the vaccination walk…