This was written for a challenge. A dystopian fiction that must include a heart shaped locket. Hope you enjoy!

For the greater good of WE.

The alarm sounds. Everyone stands at attention while we recite in unison.

We are all one unified being

Never individualized

For the greater good of WE.

We are Epihanystar. We wear a heart-shaped locket around our wrist with our name engraved in it-one of the requirements of this new society. We are in our mid-twenties and still adapting to this new world in Philadelphia. We remember our childhood, when it was the city of brotherly love.

After the oath, we take our brown paper bag and eat with the others in the large courtyard in silence. Talking is prohibited during dinner. Today is Tuesday and on Tuesdays we get turkey with mash potatoes and green beans. The food is usually bland and harsh to our taste buds. It always leaves behind an unsavory residue that clings to the tongue and hides between our teeth. We eat not for enjoyment but nourishment according to one of the laws.

While we eat, the huge screen in the courtyard lights up and “What can we do to become model citizens?” flashes across it. It ends with this.

To question the law means that there is sickness in the mind.