Unborn by Decree

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Hello, you guys. Welcome back to another episode of Laugh While You Scream with
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me, your host, Robin Bagayoko.
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Okay. Once again, no, no guests, no co-hosts, no none of that.
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So we can just, what can we call it? Laugh When You Can?
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Because since I'm going to be by myself, there's only so much,
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only so many jokes I can tell by myself about these scary stories, right? it.
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So I'm going to try my best and this will be laugh when you can. Okay.
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But welcome back, you guys. We're still reading short scared stories from Reddit.
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Okay. And today's OP is Trash underscore Tia.
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If you are a listener to this podcast, you already know when it comes to Trash
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Tia, how the stories can be.
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And like I said, I have not been reading them ahead of time.
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So I don't know what we got going on.
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It's going to be a surprise for everybody, okay? Surprise, surprise,
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right in your eyes, okay?
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So today's story is called The Government Just Deemed Me Unborn, okay?
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That sounds like a very interesting title, very interesting indeed.
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So we're going to get into it and see what Trash is talking about, okay?
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When it was first announced, my mom tried to send my brother and me away.
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Our elderly are our most precious population.
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Our 70-year-old president announced via public broadcast.
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That is why, effective immediately, all individuals under the age of 18 will
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be designated as unborn and will be subject to compulsory organ donation for those in need.
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I'm going to take a quick pause right here. Could you believe that?
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If that was ever a thing, oh my god, anyway, okay, back to the story.
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The broadcast was cut halfway through him, outlining a yearly lottery where
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every child under the age of 18 would be put into a draw.
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Adulthood is when we decide. The president told our horrified nation,
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if your children deserve to be born, you're going to stay with grandma,
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mom told the two of us, ushering us into the car.
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But we weren't the only ones trying to escape.
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The roads were packed with cars, families trying to run.
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We got as far as the Canada border before mom was tackled to the ground. A gun pointed at her.
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Freddie tried to run and was caught, dragged to his feet.
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As on Barnes, we were stripped of our rights.
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I pretended not to see the man sickening smile when he pulled the trigger.
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The guard's lips found my ear, more of a breathy laugh.
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That includes parents attempting to evade the rules, kids.
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My brother and I were delivered back home in a police cruiser to find dad hanging from the ceiling fan.
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Dad wasn't allowed a funeral, and as on Barnes, Freddie and I wouldn't have
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legal ownership of our parents' bodies until 18, until we were deemed born.
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My first lottery was in March, spring.
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The days were warmer, and the sun felt nice on my skin.
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After my failed attempt to die on my own terms, I was pulled from the tub by
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the house mother, dressed in white according to the rules, and taken to the town square.
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There I was shoved into the other kids standing in two clinical lines,
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girls in dresses and boys in pants.
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Freddie stood at the back, head bowed, his eyes glued to the ground.
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We had already said our goodbyes the night before.
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Nora Fleetwood, a man in a suit, held up a folded piece of paper with my name.
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Maybe I should have dug the razor in a little deeper.
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I didn't speak, didn't scream. When rough hands grabbed me and pulled me to
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the front, The crowd of kids were forced to clap, forced to be happy.
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I was about to be revoked of my born status.
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Thank you, the woman smiled widely at me.
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Thank you for your sacrifice and your willingness to give back to our nation's elders.
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Freddy didn't call out my name. He stayed still, frozen. But when I was herded away, I heard him.
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Nora! His wild eyes found mine, lips curled into a snarl.
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Nora, run! I didn't run, because there was nowhere else to go.
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If I ran, I'd be shot in the back of the head.
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Treated like precious cargo, I was gently lifted into the back of a white van
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for immediate transportation to the nearest hospital, along with five other kids.
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A needle was slid into my arm by a man in a white gown, and I slept for a while, dreaming of what-ifs.
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If that announcement was never made, mom would still be alive.
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I would be in my sophomore year of high school.
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I'd be thinking about colleges, Ivy Leagues, boyfriends, parties.
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I was half conscious when bright light blinded me.
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Opening my eyes, I was inside a clinical white room, my wrist strapped down.
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I blinked, my flickering gaze finding a tube in my arm.
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Thank you, a woman's voice startled
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me. There was a figure standing by my bedside, haloed in white light.
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The woman grasped my hand. Thank you for stepping forward to help my dying son.
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I flinched away from her.
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Clarity blossoming. I'm here against my will, stupid bitch, I slurred,
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tugging at my restraints for emphasis.
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A boy around my age sat next to her, his head bowed, hands clasped,
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I can't pronounce it, I'm over here struggling, hands clasped in his lap.
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He looked pretty young for an elder.
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The woman stood slowly, smiling down at the boy.
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I'll leave you and your donor to speak alone. The boy didn't move,
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offering a mumbled sure.
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When she was gone, I prompt myself up on my pillow, giving a half-hearted yank
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to the straps pinning my wrist.
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May I ask, I said, still slightly high, on anesthesia. I blew a raspy testing my swollen tongue.
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What skin cream do you use? The boy's head snapped up and my breath caught in my throat.
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He was beautiful, almost inhuman, ethereal, porcelain white skin.
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His head of brown curls was crowned with bone threaded with flowers and tangled green,
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eyes a vivid, unfamiliar shade of green that stole the air from my lungs.
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Everything about him was sharp. His lips curled to reveal razor teeth,
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airs harboring distinct points.
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I didn't fully, it didn't, wait, what? I didn't fully hit it.
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I meant, I guess I meant it.
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It didn't fully hit me until he stood up from the chair.
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You look pretty fucking good for a 75-year-old, I muttered, my voice slurring.
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I'm sorry, the boy whispered. My heavy eyes tracked his movements,
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settling on the sharp, cutting wings protruding from his back.
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He hid them quickly, struggling and.
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Shrugging a leather jacket over himself like he was ashamed.
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Our species has been wiped out, he said, voice low.
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Our young Fae have been decimated by a virus that makes us reject our own organs,
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and he broke off coughing violently.
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His body spasmed, blood splattering across his lips.
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He staggered forward until he dropped to his knees behind my bed, choking up scarlet,
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fleshy pieces into his hand Slowly his palm found my chest,
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then slid to my stomach, fingers trembling Your leaders agreed to this exchange
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His lips curled into a smile as my heart began to pound beneath his touch,
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We give them our magic, he coughed this time.
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A chunk of white hit the floor.
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I'm sorry, a chunk of red hit the front of his gown.
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And they give us their own barns. The end.
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Okay, so this was a very interesting story. Interesting indeed.
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I try my best to read stories without having too many issues,
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too many stops, corrections, such and such.
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Hopefully, you know, I'll do a better job the next go-round,
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which will be tomorrow, okay?
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So make sure to join me again tomorrow where we are going to try to find the buddy, okay?
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In this story here, where the government has decided that every kid under the
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age of 18 is deemed unborn, it is very scary if that situation should ever occur.
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And yes, probably killing yourself would have been the first thought to come
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to your head because who wants to live through whatever situation they have
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going on and whatever new plan they came up with?
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It's very scary indeed, okay?
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Very scary indeed. so the question
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for this story would be if you
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were under 18 and deemed unborn would
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you suffer through donating your
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organs yes or no because then
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you probably try to kill yourself which would have been the no you know and
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this is just a fictional situation nothing to let's we don't need to dive into
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the subject of suicide or none of that we don't need to do that right now okay
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Because that's not what I'm talking about That's not what I'm talking about.
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Yeah, that's the question. So whenever content comes up, like I said,
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that relates to the story, be sure to answer that question if you have the chance to, okay?
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