11:29pm
My mum, my dad, my two older brothers, my three younger sisters and I were all gathered around the screen of our shitty television as watched Cameron Diamond, our country's President, draw a piece of paper from the Purge Bowl. Diamond unfolded the paper, looked at it briefly, then discarded the piece of paper.
"39!" he declared.
I rolled my eyes as the TV crowd cheered at the announcement of a 39-hour purge.
"The 123rd Annual Purge will commence when the siren sounds at eleven fifty-nine PM on the thirty-first of December, year twenty-four thirty," Diamond continued.