NOVEL WORKSHOP
The Decay
… in recent years … a gigantic betrayal of the people … now there will be an end to it
7
He had talked to Sander. People were annoyed, angry. The hopelessness lay like a hazy blanket over the neighborhood. Several had lost their jobs, and are looking for a new one.
In the house next door, with the Nilsen family, it was unusually quiet. Kevin was not there. Someone further down the street has said that the man has left. Elsa sits back. Someone says she has locked herself in.
It had happened one morning, while some of the neighbors were standing by the mailbox rack. Kevin came at full speed, got in the car, waved to the neighbors and shouted: “Now it’s happening, we will speed things up. We’re going there and we’ll get rid of the criminals, they’ll not get away with it. We’ll fix it, we’ll get them out.”
The mood developed more and more in the direction of unrest, conflict.
Further down the street there was war. Two neighbors disagreed on a fence, one had set up poles. During the night the other tore down what had come up.
They live outside of everything, in a country that people travel from, not to. They had left, settled in an isolated place in the belief that they…
