The jagged orbit

About “The jagged orbit”

In 2014, the City Council of Washington, D.C., ignored a request to remove paint from the Black House. Lyla Clay, a pythoness, found her apartment flooded with advertising satchels that threatened to overload her garbage drain. Matthew Flamen, the last spoolpigeon, awoke from a nightmare where all the items he planned to air on his show became unusable. People hurried into their rapitrans capsules to reach their daily duties. In the Ginsberg Memorial State Hospital, patients remained passive in their "retreats." A model citizen, valued by the Gottschalk weaponry company, was equipped with a Mark XIX oversuit, a Helmask, a 350-watt laser-gun, a side-arm, extra magazines, gas-grenades, a knife, and a first aid kit. While the company maintained racial hate and fear, they developed System C, a weapon capable of annihilating a 25-block area. The salesmen saw total destruction as irrelevant. That night, a mixed group met in Flamen’s office in war-torn New York. A mental patient proposed a way to stop the destruction. The group wondered if they could trust him or if his plan was madness.