Witch and Wizard_ The Fire - James Patterson [86]
THE SUSIE DARKSHACK SERIES: A woman in her twenties lives in a small town where her peers are humans and demons (made-up beings very likely created by would-be witches and wizards to terrify the respectable citizens of the New Order). She struggles to find a balance between which “demons” she should leave alive and well for her social life, and which she should kill off to maintain her safety. The obvious answer is that all manifestations of fictional beings should be destroyed without delay.
PROHIBITED WEBSITES MEANT FOR SUBTERFUGE
as Proclaimed by The One Who Surfs The Cyberspace
Critter: A virtually incomprehensible online system of short, cryptic messages that helped Resistance fighters exchange hazardous information with one another. New Order efforts to eliminate this exceedingly criminal means of communication were swift and absolute.
Juggle: This search engine was invented by a young rebel who narcissistically believed she could create a record of every piece of illegal, duplicitous, and highly dangerous information on the Internet. WARNING: This young woman is still at large and attempting to supply the good citizens of the New Order with so-called free-speech documents that contain false propaganda against The One and your illustrious government. A reward is offered for her capture.
MyTaste: A social hub where users glorified the vice of individuality, based on their literary and musical tastes, to one another for “fun.” The New Order swiftly realized how much banned material was being distributed on the site and took action to replace all unlawful forms of “creative content” with acceptable New Order documents, such as the New Order Citizens’ Code and the autobiography of our esteemed leader, How I Became The One.
Countenance Digest: This site contained the complete history of an age where children and adults were free to disseminate information — cultural notes, events, political opinions, photos, and other poisonous freedoms — through a massive user-generated publication. All traces of its existence have been ordered deleted from every computer’s cache.
INAPPROPRIATE TELECASTS THAT PROMOTE ABSURDITY AND DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
as Shut Down by The One Who Restructures The Visual Media
FLEE: A musical comedy about Resistance kids attempting to escape from the Brave New World Center. The children realize that by singing inane pop songs in captivity, they are able to inflict massive psychological torture on their captors. Highly inappropriate material.
DISAPPEARED: This drama follows a group of Resistance rebels whose plane — successfully tampered with by brave New Order soldiers — crashes into a deserted island. The passengers are subjected to tests by what they believe is a “magical” island (really a controlled space created by specialist New Order scientists), only to find that they are being held there until they can be executed for their crimes against the government. A fitting end for criminals of the state, but as the show inspired many rogue counter-telecasts with an anti–New Order message, it was discontinued.
THE HOSPICE: A hospital mockumentary chronicling the daily lives of the last people alive who can still remember the time before being ruled by The One Who Is The One. The hospital’s insufferable manager, Melvin Slott, tries to make their last days easier, but for some reason each patient’s health deteriorates drastically under his care.
SAWS AND MOLDER: A documentary that goes behind the scenes of New Order prisons through hidden cameras in interrogation chambers, with events displayed each week to the public. While intended by the Resistance movement as a so-called exposé, these tapes have been embraced by The One as a means to bring the good people of the New Order together against the criminals that threaten us. All cameras have since been disabled, but reruns of the original recordings can be found on New Order network channels.
THE REAL CHURLS: The true story of seven captured Resistance teenagers picked to live in a beautiful government palace and have their lives taped to see if