New serial novel JESUSLAND Chapters 3 and 4

(The new serial continues. JESUSLAND is about a future America that has turned into an oppressive theocracy--as pioneered by the Bush 43 faith-based presidency. The love of two people in this new America lands them on the wrong side of the theocracy. Catch up with the first two chapters here; look under previous posts. The chapters are short, you'll catch up quick.)

3. THE FLAMES OF HELL.

It might have been the setting for a friendly open-air barbecue. But instead of a grill, something else drew the gaze of thousands of windows in the buildings overlooking Central Park: the untoward presence of chains and manacles glinting in the dull light on the stage built in the middle of the Great Lawn.

These instruments, which stamped the stage with the anticipation of a play (Miller’s The Crucible or Shaw’s St. Joan) had the power of physical metaphor: an intrusion of medieval concentration into modernity – droppings out of another dimension, as if time itself had swept across the city and left this eerie pile of metal from a former age in its wake.

Adam looked at the stage. Here was to take place an event not to be missed, for those fortunate enough to be invited or to live in New York. The media had been trumpeting the whole business for months.

“Flames of Hell to Consume Anti-Christ.”

“Taste of Hereafter for Ultimate Transgressor.”

“Barbecue Terrorist’s Day Comes.”
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