I never gave much thought to how I would die. Not very original I know but it's true and I cannot think of a better way to put it. My name is Susan Lion and I'm about to die, I think.
We never saw it coming but looking back we should have, I guess the thought that the world would have another Hitler was so ridiculous that no one gave it credit. Yet here we are, being hunted by our peers, arrested by our family for being different, and having a serous case of déjà vu.
Sorry I should start at the beginning. In the year 2020 a very charismatic man came to power in the USA. The world was in a depression that started late 2008, this man, Eric Jones, promised to start economic growth around the world, among other things, and this he did. He started by pointing the finger at certain people or peoples based on parts of the Bible. He rallied the people by bringing public execution back and executed many famous people including, Ellen Degeneres, Stephen Fry, Portia De Rossi to name a few, as well as thousands of Muslims. Other gay and lesbian were sent to reformation camps where they tried to beat them into heterosexuals, if they were lucky, or they were sent, with the Muslims, to testing facilities where they were used instead of animals as test dummies. Now I should explain what these facilities are like. When you first arrive they processed you. That is they shaved your head, tattooed a number on the inside of your wrist, just like the Jews in the concentration camps, and microchip you. The facility was set out in two main parts, the men's and the woman's. Then each of those parts had two wings, the first wing is the dorms where we sleep, eat, and some of us die. The second wing is where we have our tests, which range from injections and creams, to the affect of long exposure to things like radiation and cold. We are put into groups and each group has a week of testing and then three days in the dorm. It's like hell on earth; the guards never look you in the eye or talk to you, you're herded form place to place like cattle.
It was like World War 2 without the war. There were no Allied Forces to come and rescue us, nowhere in the world to run as Eric Jones had the whole world, even the UK, scared to oppose him. He had all ready nuked Iraq and all the surrounding Muslim countries, turning them all into radioactive waste lands and wouldn't hesitate to do the same to any other counties who resisted.
As you may have guessed I am a lesbian. I was happy before all this happened. My partner, Kelsey Werington, and I had been together since 2015 and I cant put into words the pain I felt when they took her away to a testing facility. The knowing I would never see her again. Never hold her again. Never kiss her again. I have no doubt in my mind I would have killed myself if they hadn't taken me at the same time to a different facility, where I am to this day 4 years later. The first 3 years after they had taken Kelsey were the darkest of my life. I lived like I was on autopilot, if you asked me I couldn't tell you much, if anything, that happened during those years. Then one day a new lot of women came in, and it was like a like cut through my gloom, like my eyes were opened for the first time in a long time. Even bald she was magnificent. She walked with her head held high, a lady amongst all the chaos.