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Lovicide

Tom Ball

    I was disgruntled and at the same time full of horror. I was deathly afraid of my lover in this World milieu of love killings. People said, “If you really love someone, you should kill them. And women killed as many as men did. It was lovicide. Here on Earth in the year 2102 A.D. the population was down to 7 million from all of the murders. And murder wasn’t illegal, so some murdered many and were serial killers in essence. People wondered why there wasn’t a big war or plague or something to kill even more off, since that is what the regime seemed to be supporting; death!”
    Like many others I was paranoid. And I never went to sleep in the same hotel room as my lovers.
    Indeed these were desperate times, and many were desperate for love and succour.
    There was no reward for murder, it was just something people liked to do. And all murders felt they were heroes. It was widely believed that killing was a thrill, especially to shoot them while they were awake and hear their last words. A revolver was the weapon of choice for would-be murderers.
    Finally my time had come, my lover had pointed a gun at me and told me I was about to die; and as I bled to death, I reflected, it was a mad World of horror.

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