The Bridge by J.S. Breukelaar

Author:J.S. Breukelaar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meerkat Press
Published: 2021-06-08T16:10:25+00:00

CHAPTER 11

WIN-WIN

Swinging each of my hands in theirs, Lara and Trudy had told me about a costume party in one of the Tower dorm rooms on the weekend. An anti-Halloween, party, apparently. A chance to get dressed up in costume without being disrespectful to witches, because the real Halloween was still weeks away. I thanked them but said I couldn’t come. That I had homework to catch up on. And besides, I said, three’s a crowd.

“Just for one drink,” Lara had said, the rose-gold feather trembling on her bracelet. “How can it hurt?”

“You’ll meet people—our people,” Trudy had added, like it was a good thing. “It’s not called a village for nothing.”

Her creaky voice braked sharply to avoid making it sound like a question. It made me wonder if maybe Marvin and I weren’t the only ones who felt endangered in Tower Village—caught in a war between those who wanted to make more of us, and those who wanted to make less.

I said I’d think about it.

Survival of the fittest, the Father said, that’s why I’ve made so many of you. It takes a village to make Paradise. The protocol by which he inserted his coded commands onto our fetal limbic system, in order to remake us in the image of a Lilith for the New World Order was literally ART, he joked. Think of ART, haha, as a chance to press “rewind” on the Fall.

Think of your digital layer, he said, as mankind’s augmented action potential.

Think of yourselves as the bridge between heaven and earth.

Think of the female imagination, he said, as a vestigial tail.

You will never sin again, he said, simply because you won’t want to.

I alone have found a way to make men without the aid of women, he said.

I will always be with you. You are the bird in my hand and in the bush—there is no end to my protection. Not even death can separate us.

You’ll thank me later, he said.

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