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Rated: 13+ · Novel · Drama · #2026405
sample of dystopian drama and romance story
Where have all the flowers gone? a voice said under a heavy blue evening sky, cold air moving
over a dark green hills .It had been nine hundred years after the holy were saved. "The forgotten" those unsaved were left behind. They hadn't aged a bit since he left them,  young were still young old were still old, They live
in small cities no flowers grow there, the sun never gives any heat  ,and the only way to die is to be murdered. they are the forgotten left behind by God.
In this new world every town centers around the "light city", the only city with electricty.
The "light city" is the center of everything there, "The Spaceship" is being  built there witch will save
people by taking them to "God's earth", the second earth created by god. For the saved one's The light city is also the center of  The suicide tower ,where people line
up one behind each other and push each other off and fall to their death, for the only way to die is to be murdered. The surrounding villages are ruled by a renaissance in art, specially theater.
since tv is rare. "Lane is the biggest actress around she even wrote a couple of plays.
The plays mostly tellings of repent for sin and most ending with a happy ending,
murder.witch the crowds find amusing as they long for death ever since their life
was turned into a new hell.  Lane is short and  she loves blue, she is always seen in a blue dress.
lately she had been very interested in "The spaceship" because she had fallen in love
with man named Harley Dean and wants to go away with him to God's new earth, I know that because I am him. We have only been together for one month
and lane is getting worried an long eternity may diminish our love . We had seen it happen
dozens of times before in each other's own past relationships some that lasted a hundred years eventually died out. Lane is in love now more then ever and we can't consider suicide I am an engineer for "The spaceship"
and Lane is the biggest play actress around..
I met Lane after one of her  plays She and I took a walk over to a river we sat next to its waters ,Lane rubbed her hand on the water and she shivered,The lack of heat had made the water almost ice. "Do you think he'll ever come back for us?"
lane said to me. I thought about it like I always had tackled that question before,
silent and scared. "Lane cried her head leaned deep on my shoulder. We both stared at god's new earth it floated above in the far blue sky it was ghostly like the moon . "30 years more and will be there"
I told Lane.  She looked at me now almost smiling , "yesterday you said 50 years" Lane said "were getting closer, I got every one helping me on designing the rockets. You know jonathan one of the farmers down here"?I asked her.
"yeah. .why"? lane asked " I got him helping me too yeah he's kind of smart"! I said
we laughed, and then a long pause.

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