Unfit by Karma Chesnut

Author:Karma Chesnut [Chesnut, Karma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734386639
Publisher: Immortal Works
Published: 2020-04-06T22:00:00+00:00

For some unfits, it is not enough to be sterilized and then released back into society. Some are not fit to walk our streets—the violent, the stupid, the agitators. For those individuals, let us show them mercy by giving them a place of their own, a safe-haven where they can live out their days, sparing us from their terminally toxic presence.

-Council Address, reign of the Council, Year 45

Two days had passed with no word from Morgan. John began to worry they wouldn’t have enough time to put their new plan in motion. Every time a keeper entered the room, John worried today would be the day they called on him to be sterilized.

The asylum corridors had been a bit more crowded than usual in the last few days. The cold had driven almost everyone inside, even though it wasn’t much warmer inside the asylum than it was outside. Groups of patients loitered in the hallways, huddled close together to keep warm. The cold didn’t bother John, though. The crisp breeze helped calm his nerves.

Pushing through the crowd congregating in the entryway, John stepped into the yard and breathed in the autumn air. There were maybe two or three other patients in the yard on the temp side, and the terminal side of the yard was just as sparse. One lone figure was curled up against the fence, hugging his knees to his chest, and even from across the yard, John recognized the tiny boy shivering in the cold.

“Tim,” he called as he approached the fence.

Tim lifted his head. His eyes were red and puffy as if he had been crying.

“What’s wrong?” John crouched down next to the fence. He scanned the yard, looking for Buck, but didn’t see him anywhere.

“I c-can’t find Bucky,” Tim sniffled, wiping his nose on the sleeve of his red jumpsuit.

“Wasn’t he with you at breakfast?”

Tim nodded. “I l-lost him in the hall. He was t-there and then he wasn’t there.” Giant tears welled up in Tim’s eyes. “I’m not s-suppose to g-go anywhere without Bucky.”

“It’s ok,” John reassured him, resting his fingers on Tim’s shoulder through the gaps in the chain-link. “I bet he’s looking for you right now and will be here any minute. I’ll wait with you until he gets here, will that be all right?”

Tim nodded again. “Th-thank you,” he mumbled.

“Do you want to play a game?” asked John.

Perking up almost at once, Tim nodded enthusiastically.

“Ok,” John smiled, quickly trying to remember what games he knew. “Do you know how to play the spying game?”

Frowning, Tim shook his head.

“I’ll teach you, it’s easy. I’m just going to look around until I spy something, and then I’m going to tell you what color it is, and you have to guess. Got it? I spy something…” John glanced around, there wasn’t a whole lot to spy, “blue.”

Furrowing his eyebrows in concentration, Tim looked around the yard rather seriously. “Umm, the sky?” Tim guessed, pointing upwards.

“Yes!” John exclaimed with exaggerated enthusiasm. “You got it on your first guess!”

Tim smiled wide and giggled.

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