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“For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did.” Her voice was thin and reedy, but there was a strength behind the words which even I could feel holding up the pillars of my world.
I was young at the time, I don’t remember exactly how old I was. I know it’s one of...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did. There were still days—a lot of them actually—when I wondered how I’d ended up with them. They were everything popular and hip and I…well, I wasn’t. I was that thin, gangly, wisp of a guy that faded into the chipped walls of Stanton High. Nine days out of ten, I was invisible. Unfortunately, that always left that one day when someone...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did. The list was growing longer and more ridiculous as “the retreat” grew closer. When it was first announced that there would be a list of requirements we all knew there would be some degree of offensiveness and ridiculousness to it. How could there not be? When you are deciding who will live and die you are bound to come up with a biased system of selection. But this is more extreme...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did. So now passwords are required.
They e-mail the time and password two days before the next party. There are only three rules to the Underground. The first rule is that you must wear a...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did. Turns out the old roof had finally given in. Has a roof ever ruined your life, just taken your carefully constructed and peaceful existence and smashed it all to bits? A roof...read more
"For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did."
"What are you talking about?" Adraen asked, shaking his head. Sometimes Vaery, his younger-by-seventeen-and-a-half-minutes twin brother, could come out of the middle of nowhere...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did.
The doctors had been asking me the same questions for weeks. Finally breaking down, I decided to tell them. I’m not sure what I saw that evening...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did. The government thought we were getting on perfectly fine without needing to conform to the religion that they wished to impose on the whole nation. But then one day the social workers came by, and...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did. They assumed that all of us—every artist, street performer, and preacher—was a secret commie waiting to rally the East Village proletariat into a bloody revolution. In truth, most...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did.That’s what she said at his funeral. A parent shouldn’t have to bury their own kid, but in this case, I guess he dug his own...read more
For a long time they said we didn't need one, but then something changed and they said that we did. but buying one was a hastle. it always was. and bribes and threats could only get you so far. eventually, they would give you the test. a test that, if you failed, you lost all chances of getting...read more
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