Читать книгу Mirage's Revenge - Lorena Garcia - Страница 1

We were all born to die. With every “miraculous” birth, our clocks start ticking. Time is numbered and our lives are scheduled out. Our populace is separated between the sexes; Males, the celebrated sex, and females, the despised sex.

Very few women survive to their forties, when they are then classified as “Out of Service” and honorably hung. Women are required to give birth to men. If after the fifth try, they haven’t fulfilled their duties, they are burned to death. All of the worthless females are sent to the Department of Corrections where they live until their twelfth year. They are then taken to the Hall of Screams, a building where they are stripped and broken by every willing male member of our society. It is the only building without a name, lest any should wish to name it. There, the women are broken little by little for two months before they are either taken as a wife or burned to death.

However, if a boy is born, the wife’s transgressions are pardoned and the boy lives with his parents for five years before they are sent to the Department of Education. There they spend ten years learning how to work. When their schooling has ended, they are assigned a room in the Hall of Screams and watched how to break them. If those boys, who are only supposed to watch, gets a temptation to touch and acts on it, they are severely punished. After they have learned, they choose a line of work. The lines available are; working in the Hall of Screams, patrolling the streets as an enforcer of the rules, a scholar, or a healer. Once a job is chosen, they receive a house and rank, and with all the information above, they are now seen as a member of society.

I have the wonderful privilege of living in a rural-esque town whose shining plaque reminds us of its name, Doja. My name is Aqulune, I work for the Magistrate Council in enforcing the rules of our society and though I am recounting this tale, it is not about me. This is simply my way of reaching citizens and opening their eyes to the injustice and cruelty of our catalytic society embodying her story of struggle and pain.