6/25/11: Mexico, New York

In upstate New York there is a small town. John Croft will go there to save a boy from nightmares. While John believes he can save the town, Marie knows its is too late.

When John croft arrived in Mexico, New York he was already too late. They expected him and had set a trap to finally do away with him after what he did in New York City. But the acolytes of the dark forces had failed to take into account the return of his dead daughter. Mexico, New York had been dominated by the acolytes of the old gods in one long, hot summer. The citizens of the quiet Upstate New York town didn’t know what had hit them when the hotter than Normal summer came to an end and by Christmas beneath the quiet façade of the town was a sinister and sadistic secret that had affected and changed everyone. This town of less than two thousand people was never going to be the same.

1/7/11: The China Limit

America had hit its China Limit, the maximum population that could be sustained within the major cities. It was bound to happen and when it did most cities were not prepared.

In 2020, the Chinese government put tighter restrictions on reproduction. With China being a totalitarian dictatorship that type of restriction was easily enforced. Unfortunately, in America, it was a little harder to enforce the new laws.

No unauthorized childbirths. Birth control was being administered to everyone. The development of male birth control was a breakthrough that allowed for greater restriction on conceptions. The religious right was furious about this enforcement but laws were passed well before they voiced their concerns that made arguing irrelevant. The greater good of all was not going to be sacrificed because of a belief that God frowned upon birth control.

Mandatory terminations of unauthorized conceptions were the greatest concern by the religious. This drove the religious establishments insane and prolife groups demonstrated. But when the water and food riots of 2025 struck almost every major city, the government gave those who argued a choice. Eat and drink and survive on what we can provide and live by our laws. Or join the fringe elements on the borders of Mexico and Canada who were living like they want and dying from starvation or dehydration.

Food was scarce. Most, if not all, industrial food production was being directed to the cities and surrounding areas. Those big name food companies you had in your freezers and in your cupboards were being directed under government agent “protection” to send all food produced not to warehouses or distribution centers. Instead it was all going straight to the cities.

The small farmer of the past was being squeezed out by regulations and restrictions.