PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot
The big, rusty pot on the top of the cabinet was everything that had ever been wrong with Henry’s life.
The state rated him as a “Standard” just like Mom and Dad, nothing horrible, nothing exceptional. He was the default an enlightened society blamed things on to prioritize other groups.
He was a Standard, so allowed one marriage, one career and one child. They were all Standard except Mao elected to retranslation camp to become prioritized as an Outsider N-5.
He rated a divorce after twenty years and in old age, everything the state valued was still out of reach.
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