A Lone Survivor

by Abir972

Story inspire by the handmaid's tale (I bet a lot of you read the book) Hayley is forced to abandon her old friends, life and identity to become a Handmaid for the Mikaelsons. She found herself trapped in the despotic universe of Gaya, the land of injustice and blind misanthropy towards women. How will she survive it?

1. prologue

Prologue

In a world where the primal factor for man's continuity, fertility, threatens to extinct. Gaya, a nation built upon the fall of what was once known as the U.S.A by a group of rightist elites and influential landlords, has forwarded a fertility rebound in the form of arranged pairing between fecund women, exclusively belonging to the working class, regardless of their color, religion or sexual orientation, and the sons of the most eminent figures in society to face the dramatic drop-off in birth rate. These women are referred to as handmaids.They were stripped of their old identify and were forced to comply with a set of despotic and invariable rules.

Rules:

- The handmaids are in a holy mission. They are viewed as blessed creatures exerting life-creating power and are expected on that basis to show complete commitment to their mission. Should these women display any lack of devotion, the sanction would be very severe.

- Sex is only allowed for procreation and it takes place once a month during the most fertile days of the handmaid.

- If she refused to have sex. Her master has the right to force her.

- Sex is forbidden during her pregnancy and periods.

- Only the master can postpone the ceremony (the night they have sex)

- A handmaid can leave the house only for very limited errands like shopping, attending the delivery of her fellow maids, and seeing the doctor for checkups.

- After labor, the handmaid tends to the baby for 4 months before she leaves for another household.

- The handmaid's service spans 2 years. If she doe not give a baby past this period, the host family is free to send her to the Shadowland (a place where unproductive women are exploited in difficult labor like farming and mining) .

- Any kind of romantic intercourse between the handmaid and her master is forbidden.

- The master is granted the right to get married, albeit having a handmaid, only with women from the same social class as his, or else his relationship is deemed illegitimate.

- A handmaid doesn't have the right to read.

- A handmaid doesn't have the right to mention her old name or even communicate it to anyone, whether in written or oral form.

Next chapter will be uploaded very soon so stay tuned.