He couldn’t believe the news
as he read the email on his phone. He
had feared this for almost five years, ever since the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
was unanswered, with a homophobic maniac to whom violence and contempt was the first
and only response to any action, stole the White House. Now he was reading it; in a trio of executive
orders, Martial Law had been declared, putting the US military, with machine
guns at the ready, in place of the police, ready to murder any sign of
resistance. The House of Representatives
had been abolished, so a second impeachment trial would never happen. And the one he feared most of all had come
true. The entire LGBTQ+ populace, as
well as the reconciling congregations that had sheltered and defended them,
like his own, had been declared non-citizens and non-human, also members of a “radical
terrorist group” and were to be gathered up in a new Holocaust to be
exterminated from the country in what was called a “holy cleansing.” Anyone who was to declare opposition was to
be shot as soon as they made their declaration.
A couple tense minutes passed as he considered grabbing the steak knife
and slitting his own throat. Before he
could reach a decision, a Marine kicked the door down, aiming the machine gun
barrel at him. “You Daniel Short of
Garden Street Methodist?” he barked. He
fearfully nodded to the soldier. The
soldier hit him with a sweep kick, punched him across the face, breaking his
jaw and nose, then positioned his hands behind his back, hauling him to the
permafrost cap of Mt. Baker. He was
stripped down to his underwear and tossed in the cell, where his thigh bones
were broken, forcing him to crawl before the cell door slammed shut. This was to be the rest of his life, decades of
agony, being tortured and brought within inches of death time and time again,
driven near the point of insanity over and over with the intention of making
him lose his mind completely and physically maul what was left of him. Trump gave way to Pat Robertson, who gave way
to Mike Pence, who gave way to Franklin Graham, who gave way to Kirk Cameron,
each continuing the massacre of all who they despised. The UK, EU, Canada, China and Japan
collectively embargoed the United States, but each leader eased the people by
telling them they needed to fill Leviticus 20:13 more than they needed
International Friends. If non-Abrahamic religious
people protested, they were murdered. It
was only with the second coming of Jesus that things were put right in the
infernal pit of sin known as the United States.
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