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2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington
“This eruption of violence had been brewing for years, through successive economic collapses, pandemics, and the utter dysfunction that had become American life.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
Hunt raised a piece of salmon sashimi between two chopsticks as she read the chyron for the next story: Castro Autopsy Leaked on Common Sense Confirms Foul Play and White House Lies. She placed his name in a search engine and learned that he’d lost his legs in the Spratly Islands and that the Chinese nuclear attack on San Diego had killed his wife and three daughters, who’d lived at nearby Camp Pendleton. Shriver kept talking from the sunroof, gesturing toward specific people in the crowd—a middle-aged woman wearing yellow pants held up by a snakeskin belt and a yellow T-shirt with a DON’T TREAD ON ME silkscreen, effectively transforming herself into a walking Gadsden flag; a twentysomething Native American wearing a beaded belt over a Truther T-shirt from Veritas Vengeance; as well as the leather-vested members of the Buffalo Soldiers, the African American motorcycle club with heavy US military representation, some of whose members lent their services to the Truther brigades.
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