2025

 After I found the knife, I swam downriver until I found came to a small island, where, in the tall grass, I cut out the microchip that would be used to track me and prove I belonged to my husband.  I ripped some cloth from my skirt, and bound the microchip around a rock and then threw the rock into the deepest part of the water.  Hopefully, that would confuse anyone tracking me for a bit.  I took off my blouse, and used it to soak up the blood from where I had removed the microcip, and then artfully tore the skirt, messing the area to make it look as though a struggle had occured.   I left most of the skirt, but saved some of the fabric, placing it carefully back in the bag. I dragged my heels though the mud, to make it appear as though I had been dragged away by someone -- or something.  After that had been complieted, I continued on, hoping that my husband would be fooled into thinking I had been ambushed and probably dead.   Hopefully, it...

 We found out pretty quickly that it wasn't safe being  a woman.  After the new leader took over, women were being attacked in the streets, and at first, they were reporting it to the police, but after nothing was being done,  tried defending ourselves.  Unfortunately, the ones who defended themselves were the ones who ended up in jail for "assault".  They were sent to the work camps.  In order to protect myself, I started dressing like a boy to avoid unwanted attention, but then they made it illegal for women to cut their hair or wear pants. Our dresses had to be at least below the knee, and enforces walked around with rulers to ensure that our skirts and dresses were legal.   Men were starting to come to the camps to look for wives.  They made it a law that if someone wanted to a woman in the camp, since she was indebted to the Nation, she had to comply so she wouldn't be a burden to the state.   We wouldn't have been "burden...

*edited for clarity*  We were worried, after the election, because there had been talk about the Big Plan that the new Leader would enact after he took office.  What had been leaked online was very concerning, but before the election, everyone said it would never happen.  But it DID happen.  One of the first things he did was pardon all the rioters who had tried to attack the Capitol four years ago; he declared them True Patriots and heroes loyal to the cause.   The media was shut down.  At first, they tried to tell us there were "communication difficulties" but we knew better.  Especially when we tried to use the internet and found many sites no longer available.  People were angry, and a few riots started, but it was nothing like 2020.  Armed militias patrolled the streets and protesters and rioters were shot, and curfew was declared.    Those foolish enough to think the National Guard would soon restore order would be disapp...

It's the year 2025.  I'm writing from the former United States of America, which is now just The Colony.  I'm hoping this gets out to the rest of the world, so you can know what's going on, because citizens no longer have access to the free Internet; I've managed to hack into something to try and get the story out.   Since the Wall got built, no one gets in; but no one gets out, not unless they are wealthy and have a government permit.  That is, unless you are deported, or sent to the internment camps.  I was sent to one of those camps.   This is my story. We had a home, but my mom was a single parent and didn't fit the "traditional family unit" and only heterosexual men are considered heads of family now, and only men can work, so we lost our home.  Anyone who didn't fit the "traditional" family unit basically lost their rights as a citizen.  And if you couldn't work, you couldn't pay for a place to live.   Women also weren't...