#764 Hollow- Mia Mingus
The human race has been separated into two: The Perfects and the Un-Perfects or cripples. The U.P.s are despised for not being perfect and eventually in a holocaust-like event, rounded up and mass-murdered. Before being completely expunged from existence, they were sent to a newly inhabitable planet called Hallow, to exist under military guards in permanent exile.
“There had been talk at one point that the regime would send all the criminals there to be quarantined and die, but everyone knew the regime needed the free labor in the prisons too much to send their criminals away.”
They eventually overtook there captors and destroyed communication with the Perfects who never learned of the uprising. They kept sending new U.P.s to Hallow where they were taken care of as Arrivals. Now, fifty years later, a letter came with an Arrival announcing the first visit from earth in all this time. The U.P.s know this means death and destruction of the culture they have built free from oppression. They must decide whether to stay and fight or flee to regroup and save their history.
Notable Passage: “How do you teach a history of hate in the name of love?”
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