- Location
- Sandford, Gloucestershire
- Pronouns
- She/They
Nice touch with the states carried in the last box
Is this by any chance based on anywhere?The sky crackled with a fractured lighting bolt, fizzling and popping as it ripped its way down from above. The stench of something most foul filled the traveller's nostrils, a potent mix of hormonally-altered Chicken farm runoff and a small slum's worth of minimum wage workers who couldn't afford to use the private laundromats in the big cities. Odds are there were a few corpses there too, since the traveller knows full well whoever owns the reservoir he's walking across from can afford his fare share of privatised anthrax.
He coughs, wiping off some greenish phlegm as it landed on his wrist. He should see a doctor, he joked to himself, knowing that things like that, a doctor for someone who wasn't sleeping with Jeff Bezos, were a relic of the past, like unions, or the FDA, or the little heart rating on the corners of cereal boxes. Once again, a bolt of lightning tore across the sky. It was daytime, the traveller was pretty sure, but the brief tear across the soot-filled skyline was as much akin to sunlight as they could hope right now. The smokestacks off in the distance pump out billows of company coal, mined in a company town, into the air, powering, I dunno, something the upper classes use, like hair dryers, or at least that's what they tell people like the traveller. He coughs again, this time noting a red glob nestled with the rest he hacked up.
A third lightning flash illuminates a tattered campaign poster still somehow clinging to the wall of an abandoned building, like many on the waterfront are. It reads -- "Don't let the marxist Democrats take what's yours! Keep America free for all! Vote in Rand Paul for a 4th term!"
The year is 2021. Former President Ron Paul is long dead. His son lives on. Business is booming.
Yeah, on a list I made a while agoIs this by any chance based on anywhere?
I just want you to know I hate this so much and want to exchange it for something else so very badly1. The Stranglers (feat. Hugh Cornwell) - Strange Little Girl (1994)
AlrightI just want you to know I hate this so much and want to exchange it for something else so very badly
Jokes on you I like this concept1. Tony Christie (ft. Jarvis Cocker) - Walk Like A Panther (2000)