SWNOVELS Chapter 8.
8. But now for Blind-man’s Buff they call;
“Harlow,” a woman in the doorway calls to a man who is approaching his eighties lies on a king-sized bed. The morning sunlight creeps between the curtains that are closed but not so closed not to allow some of this creep morning sunlight to play peeping tom. White linen curtains layered under dark brown curtains let beams of morning light in, falling onto the medium brown wooden furniture. He opens his eyes.
The woman who is attempting to rouse this man she called Harlow, now takes hold of his foot that is hidden under the sheets, blankets, and comforter.
“Harlow,” she says again taking hold of his foot and shaking it in her right hand.
Harlow was retired now…he had been loyal to the United States of America as a member of the Army. Then although having mixed feelings he took over as a General overseeing the Los Angeles and Orange County areas for Kingdom America. Overseeing the Royal Guard…later renamed the Rainbow Coalition. The idea was to confuse the people of Kingdom America with a constant presence of what used to be called the National Guard remained as the Royal Guard…and then the Rainbow Coalition. Jesse Jackson had fled to Mexico and then the Rainforests of central and south America after King Bush’s regime had taken over. Some might have said this was a bloodless coup but the political executions were not televised. Echoing Gil Scott-Heron’s Poem save for the fact that the revolution wasn’t televised by the computer-generated monarch created by Adrian Woodhouse. President George W. Bush…his immediate and some members of his extended family had been evacuated by Aztec Ghost who traveled back in time. Unbeknownst to many people was that the Aztec Ghosts from the future had come back in an attempt to change history so a beloved President and his family would not become imprisoned and replaced by human and computer-generated lookalikes…or their fates being lost to a television show like History’s mysteries.
Harlow had found out from Jessica Andrews what her father, Adrian Woodhouse, the Earthly son of Satan, was planning to do with our beloved USA and President George W…
After the fall of Kingdom America, after the dust settled, the General retired from his life trying to maintain the United States of America and then hide his activities to undermine Kingdom America by feeding his wife insider information some reports of government espionage speaks of spies putting flash drives into peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to help conceal this bit of espionage. But the General concealed his messages in the literature that he would write a cipher somewhere in the book and throughout this book letters, words, or phrases would help construct the message. And to most people who were unaware, the book looked like an old copy of a Kurt Vonnegut or Joseph Heller novel.
These books were given to Harlow’s most dutiful wife Kathryn who passed them off to others in the Anti-Kingdom movement. She would either give the books as gifts, drop a personal book off at the library, or leave them on a park bench.
This method helped secure safe passage for Sol, Mesi, and Zombie Joe to deliver the McGill device even though Sol and Mesi thought they were only on a pleasant road trip…until they met Zombie Joe. This same system helped them warn the Anti-Kingdom people to evacuate the Royal City i.e., Washington D.C. before the McGill device was triggered. Sometime after the Aztec Ghost Project was formalized the military of the Zombie Protected Zone turned over the information that was hidden in the books the General used as ways to transmit any intelligence, which he believed would save lives and still restore the United States of America.
On this September morning in the year twenty twenty-two, Kathryn Esenbach pulls back the curtains on the windows of their bedroom to reveal some of Harlow’s memorabilia from his days as a General in the Army, and then a short stint in the Army National Guard. For some time now, since the reestablishment of the United States of America, Harlow and Kathy put any Kingdom America trophies in several boxes stored in the toolshed in the backyard of their home. They had moved around several times especially since Harlow was threatened by some crazy psychiatrist near the end of the Kingdom America regime.
Since the re-establishment of the United States of America General Esenbach has been donating some of his time to revealing that this Kingdom was ruled by Adrian Woodhouse and that much of the Bush family lived in exile on this mysterious planet his sources at the newly named Mictlan forces a coalition of humanity, zombianity, and the Aztec Ghosts had spoken of as their crux of their ability to travel through Time/Space. And some of the coasts and oceans seemed like something out of a travel brochure for French Polynesia.