All the Lost Ones

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So here’s how the world ends, version... I’ve lost count, because I’ve seen a lot of them. I just wish this one didn’t feel so much like a near-future newsreel.

All the Lost Ones’ backstory, neatly delivered in faux-documentary footage, is that the government has enacted policies designed to quash the usual suspects — liberals, tree-huggers, feminists, homosexuals, clueless eggheads, et al., whose attempts to slow down human-caused climate change stoked a particularly virulent rage among the politically / socially conservative salt-of-the-earth contingent who consequently rose up to reclaim their America.

The story proper begins on a decidedly downbeat note: All that disruption toppled all existing order, including basic services that generally go with even relatively stable dictatorial governance. There are pockets of resistance and they’re probably scattered across the globe, but given the sorry state of communications, The Lost Ones’ rebels are operating on an immediate friends-and-family basis and are concentrated in underpopulated pockets of the U.S.