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The Future

December 16, 2022
By Anonymous

In the year 2087 the earth is a technologically rich society. Earth is divided in two: the lower class and the higher class, the higher class live in the cities in the skies the most important live in the lua colony of the moon while the lower class are left to live in the densely polluted earth…

Adam wakes up in a cold sweat, another nightmare waking him up. He looks at the clock 6:00 am time for work, the light flickers as he walks down his living quarters to his closet, empty as always filled with just his work jacket, some boots, a dirty white shirt, and a box in the corner. He turns the tap… it's dry as always… he exits his room wearing the bright yellow jacket with pitch black boots. Across the hallway is his only friend here Duarte, Duarte has long hair usually in a ponytail he stands out from everyone not only his left arm being a cybernetic implant but the long scar that runs from the right side of his cheek to his eyebrow. 

Duarte whispers in his ear ¨did you hear what happened after the 2 pm shift?¨ Adam whispers back ¨No¨ Duarte whispers back "supposedly some person entered the control center and killed off most of the security in the sector" "What?! How? Why?" Suddenly a large buzz noise plays as Adam, Duarte and the other workers line up. A man holding a body scanner scans all of them checking their vitals, a voice over the intercom plays "PROCEED FORWARD '' All the workers walk forward through the front gate to outside in two lines. 

All of them spread around the humongous trash piles. The air smells metallic, the sky is full of smog. Sometimes the air gets hard to breath even after their air filter modifications all the workers have. Earth has been in this state of pollution for a few decades, barely any green visible. 

They all pick up shovels and start collecting all that can be salvaged.

Adam starts shoveling his pile, the piles of garbage usually are as big as a one story house and as long as a bus. Suddenly something in his pile catches his attention, it's a bag full of blue pills. These pills are drugs, they have a history of being popular on earth but they can be dangerous. As Adam stares at this bag of blue pills an idea runs into his head...


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