Brian Schell

Three Child Minimum

Briella sat in her swing and stared at her neighborhood. She never thought about how the houses of her gated community looked kind of like a bee hive. All the units were connected and looked exactly the same. In front of each unit was the same model of a self driving vehicle. These streets are where she used to play with the other children, games of hopscotch, jumprope, and invaders. Soon her thirteenth birthday would arrive when her parents would begin to arrange her marriage. Before she knew it, she would be birthing and caring for the three children required by the state.