Twenty-three thirteen is a work in progress, published on wattpad, based on a dream I had a few months ago

Characters

Sarah Byrd

Sarah Byrd, the main protagonist of the story is a lower class, eighteen year old girl. She lives in a shed behind an old abandoned house, where the rest of the lower class live. She loves to run. Sometimes she'll run in the city. Before she became a lower class and everything turned to shambles, she waited at a shop and Li cafe. Sarah is gay which is the reason why why she's lower down in the hierarchy, she's completely healthy and very attractive. She has brown hair that is always tied into a ponytail and blue eyes. She's best friends with a girl who used to run an old art shop. She is unemployed, obviously and fed up with the system. She also has clear pale skin

Alina Church

Alina is a nineteen year old woman from the lower class, she used to run the art before she was unemployed. She's lower class because she's black. She has brown eyes and curly hair. She lives on the other side of the city's outskirts, where a lot of the other lower class live.

Agnes Hamilton

Agnes is a forty-five year old middle class woman who works as a doctor in an upper class surgery, she finds Sarah on the street. She is very short with strawberry blonde hair in an up to with brown eyes, she's very strict to all the workers but she has a soft spot for Sarah.

Mr Florence

Sarah never found out his name so he's always referred to as Mr Florence. He is an upper class young, newly married man. He spends a normal amount of time in the surgery as he runs it. Though he does not work there. He's in his mid twenties, brunette hair with a moustache on his top lip and victorian era clothing.

The world

The City of Aldspring is one of many in the country and even more in the world. In Twenty-three thirteen, there are three classes

The lower class

The lower class are completely unemployed, losing their jobs before the 'fall' which is what they call the beginning of this new society. They live in sheds in gardens behind huge fences. A handful of the lower class live in that part of an old neighbourhood, outside the cities, why do they live in sheds and not houses? Simple. They'd been completely destroyed and brick walls were built instead. They are completely reliant on rations of food, clothes etc. These are provided by a company that works to keeping them the lower class alive, as they clearly don't have any finance. The lower class wear clothing from the two-thousands, which are normally scruffy. They are often looked down upon by the higher classes. If someone from the lower class does get some sort of job for whatever reason then they are not permitted for pay. Those who do get caught giving money to the lower class will be executed immediately.

Middle class

The middle class are the only class that are actually 'employed'. They can work wherever, just as you could in the two-thousands, but they cannot own companies, buildings etc. They make their own money, fifty percent of which, they have to give to the upper class and the lower class system they wear a strange combination of two-thousands and nineteen-hundreds clothing.

The middle class are permitted to talk to the upper class only  if spoken to. They are also permitted to luxeries such as: holidays, nice houses and the television.

The upper class

The highest of the high. The upper class are blessed with many different luxeries, such as owning many companies but not nessesarily having to work. However, if needed they may need to, check up on the company.

They will need to treat the middle with a little respect, but they may speak to the lower class however they please. They dress in nineteen-hundreds clothing.

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The laws are as follows:

No one is permitted to leave the country of Ostresh. Those who try and those who try to help another escape, will be executed immediately.

People are to only marry within their classes. A middle class must marry another middle class. An upper class must marry an upper class, unless your are lower class. In which case, you cannot marry.

Different classes cannot develop any sort of close relationship. That being said, people from different classes can develop a professional relationship.

Stealing is not possible. But for the one percent chance that it does happen, then the punishment is thirty lashings to the hand, if it happens again then thoth hands get cut off.

Murder has a strict punishment, which is public burning.

Rebellion will result in immediate execution.

And anyone who dares to show some sort of individualality, is wiped off t he centre of the earth, as if they never existed....

Description

Sometimes I think that we as a society, are moving backwards....

Sarah Byrd is a determined young piwoman, living in a world which is unforgiving for people like her. She is spat on in the streets, lives in squalor and treated lower than dirt.

But when she gets the opportunity of a lifetime, things start to get a bit strange. Can she escape the City of Aldspring and find a better life elsewhere?

However, Aldspring had strict laws, that cannot be broken under any circumstances.

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