Kerry L Dutter

X3: 215

Kerry Dutter Dystopian Story X 3: 215 Naomi Blunt plugged the code into the computer, lifted the boxy machine onto the table and waited. It began silently whirring. The readout on her timer showed seconds, minutes, and most importantly the captured energy output. Within 5 minutes the whirring slowed and stopped. Energy output: Zero. Blunt looked at the previous thousands of codes she had entered and sighed. Someday she thought, someday. There was no urgency to get this done now but she knew it was coming. As an MIT trained chemist and researcher she was employed by the Government of the Americas to find alternative food sources. Food, inside the bubble they lived in was too scarce, due to a lack of sunshine, water, and earth to grow anything in. If her superiors knew about her real research, they would kill her. She thought about that a minute, and remembered what her father had told her, “Everyone knows they’ve got to die. No one wants to do it today.”