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FILL: Utopia 1/?

[takmarierah]

Okay, so it’s my intention that this will not be as long as the other thing, and I will probably just shoot myself if it is, but I’m trying for not. That said it will take some time to complete. It’s not 100% loyal to the prompt, but I am a huge sucker for dystopian settings, so, yeah. Here ya go; here’s my shot at it. I hope you like it regardless, OP. :o

i.
Nuclear war might almost have been better, Charles thought at times. It was absurd; it was unrealistic and it was pessimistic. Still, sometimes he thought it.

He watched the world turn through a television set, through newspapers and gossip. The sky above turned faintly green with smoke wafting away from another part of the globe, and that winter it had snowed extraordinarily; Charles didn’t eat fresh food for two weeks.

It had never snowed that much in the mountains outside of Chiliwack, not in anyone’s lifetime.

ii.“I’d like to see Erik,” Charles asked that morning. He always asked that, every morning, when Lila came to bring him the paper and breakfast. The food was