Christian Royce

Original Position

Much like the environment, the government had used "policide" to manage racial tensions, a term used to describe the attempt to publicly kill a crisis through extensive policies. It was an effective agent: many came to believe that problems treated with policide were dead. In truth, the government had effected legislation to accord itself an absolution from the hell that its self-denial would breed. In its wake, large expanses of time passed without incident: temperatures were generally favorable, and overt racism had seemingly ended. But sometimes, wildfires raged across the midwest and a black family was torn out of their home in the night by an angry mob. Sometimes, families sold future generations to conglomerates to feed themselves. In many ways, it was easier to deny what was happening to the world most of the time. But when the extreme cases started to happen more frequently, the time had come for a reckoning. Fate had launched its new product, anti-policide, and the adjuvant was a global pandemic.