The City of Misery

Nobody can hear a Scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.

Anabelle loves being on Facetube that her living room have three 65 inch TVs on each wall.Each TV have their own names Carl ,Zoe and Luz.The South wall TV is Carl ,with a golden name plate above it.The east wall has a golden nameplate with Zoe above that smart TV.The West wall has Luz on the golden name plate above that smart TV.

She sits all weekend on her comfortable plush red sofa with the iPod that controls all three Smart TVs. She only gets up to make herself a meal and uses the bathroom. Anabelle is an attractive woman in her late 30’s. She has no plans to have kids or be in any relationship. She loves her single lifestyle. Annabelle can't help having a Bubbly personality that she tries to suppress at times . Annabelle's bubbly personality comes out when she is around people or when she tired of keeping the company of Misery. Annabelle lives in a city, where you hear the police car siren every hour of each day.

Today is Monday Annabelle , goes out of her home to work. She normally works from home the rest of the week. Annabelle takes care of the elderly by using her iPod , Smart TVs and the elderly personal robot with artificial Intelligence. Carl is 82 and lives on the south side of the city, which is the worst part of the city. Carl is a half black and a half White man .He has the gorgeous blue eyes You ever did see. His eyes seem to twinkle when he smiles. Zoe is 78 and lives on the east side of the city. The poorest part of the city. Zoe half Chinese and half Black woman. She had a wife who died three days ago of Cancer. Luz is 60 with no ability to walk on her own . She lost her ability to move to Multiple Sclerosis and live on the West side of the City, where all the rich , famous and politicians live. Luz is a hellraiser

, she just loves to tell outrageous stories that, I feel at times are true. Annabelle goes to Carl, Zoe and Luz homes once a week to give them Human contact .

Monday , 6am Annabelle wakes up and asks her personal robot if it could bring her the morning coffee. She programmed her robot to be named Richard, because she had a crush on an actor named Richard. Somethings Annabelle prefer to do it herself. Annabelle took her shower and wear the special suit to go out of her house which was made up a very special fabric that makes you feel comfortable no matter the weather is outside. The fabric adjusts to the environment.

She takes her iPod and portable wifi (Its more secure to bring your own personal wifi) with her to have access to her three clients' home technology. She ride her portal vehicle run by Solar power.

Annabelle arrives at Carl‘s house at 7:45 am and there was always someone or a couple of people laying pass out on his steps with a mesoram syringe needle still stuck on their arms. Annabelle just kicks a few of them off the steps to get pass them and call the 732 to remove them and take them to their homes. Everyone have a tattoo body number for personal identification plus their heart-shaped locket. They will be on house arrest until they rehabilitate their bodies but the Drug Lords still have the power to get around the system, sadly enough. In a few months, they will be laying in the streets again. I always call Carl before I enter his home. Carl was a washed out lawyer. Carl hoards a lot of books that you cannot move too much around his house. Thank God, his entry way is always free of clutter. Carl Robot’s name was Mike. I call out the passcode to take control of Carl’s robot Mike. I call out to Carl? I asked Mike (AI) where Carl is. Mike(IR), responded “ Carl is in his office reading one of his books .” The System of making the Court better”. As Technology gets better, corruption evolves as well. Carl heard voices and came out of his office .”Hey ,Annabelle it's good to see you .” “ Hi Carl , please let Mike (AI) clear your books so there is a pathway to move around.” She said to Carl. Carl always have red eyes from drinking so much , I was surprised if he was up. Carl has Dementia but, he seem to always recognized me when I come to visit him. Carl told me he had a court case, where babies was buried alive because abortion was no longer allowed and people where no longer allowed to have more than two babies. The images that he saw of these cases devastated him. He retired after 10 cases. Our World have become full of Misery. I always check if Carl have all he will need for a week and if he has any doctors appointment coming up. Thank God ,Doctor’s are now home service. I said my goodbyes to Carl and head to Zoe’s apartment building.

I arrived in front of Zoe apartment building, where there were people walking around with backpacks selling all kind of Drugs like Candy. There was music blasting in all kinds of directions. A man dancing in the Corner with his music blasting loud. You hear gunshots being shot somewhere and police siren in not so far distance. I quickly enter Zoe’s apartment building .

I arrived at the elevator area where there was a couple physically fighting, I sprayed the couple with special mazed spray to freeze them and called 842 where they will be in relationship /rehab counseling for 6 months, if they have kids they will be with relatives or foster care . No Judge necessary for cases like this cause its a citizen arrest and the Camera with sound is all the proof you need to call code 842 and a Robocop from the department of 842 will come pick them up.Everyone’s heart locket has cameras/sound activation code that goes off on its on. It just does not call the robocop because of privacy laws.

I called Zoe before entering her apartment and used my iPod to control Zoe’s Robot , Sam. I do my routine apartment look around to make sure Zoe will be comfortable and safe. Do my Routine check on Sam (AI). Talk with Zoe and check how she is holding up with the loss of her wife.She cried and I gave her a hug to comfort her. This is the Human contact part of the job.

I let her tell me stories and show me pictures on her TV screen. I stayed for over two hours , making sure I got her access to everything she needed. I made an appointment for her Telemental health regarding her loss of her love ones . Sam(AI) have the capability of being a mental health Counselor but most people like to talk to human beings. Zoe told me her next door neighbor was arrested for selling guns and one of the city council person was in it too. I told Zoe never to leave her apartment building without Sam(AI).

Annabelle took her break to the nearest coffee shop. When she entered the coffee shop the Big Screen TV was Blasting the latest news . She orders dark coffee and turkey sandwich . She sat by the Window, which was sprayed painted with black on the outside but you can see clearly the outside from the inside. The news on TV was blasting about these new drugs on the street causing people to kill people for no reason. Annabelle finished her lunch and left the coffee shop.

Annabelle arrived at Luz's beautiful cape cod style home. Annabelle parked her car in the driveway. Luz always left her door unlocked . Annabelle did not use her iPod. Luz called her robot Cindy (IA) . Cindy was always well maintained. Luz has a lot of money from the company she built and sold a few years ago when her MS got worse. Luz is very good at programming and her house is the most technology advanced home, Annabelle has ever been in. Luz always has some delicious pastries made just for Annabelle. Luz have 8 children and all of them live far away. Luz children hardly ever visit her because they are busy with their own life according to Luz. Families were not what they used to be. No more getting together . You have to pay a stranger to keep you company. Luz love to gossip about her neighbor’s son. When luz talks she does not hold back on the use of cursed words. Luz favorite curse words are “F “ and “A” and it's hilarious to hear her say them. Luz likes to tell her that the next door teenager goes to the inner city to party and have he drugs on and come back at 3 am in the morning mess up. Annabelle would ask how Luz knew all this. Luz gets woken up easily by the sound of the car door being shut and she asked her neighbor why her son was out so late? Annabelle would laugh at the stories Luz tells her. Luz told Annabelle about her neighbor who just murder his girlfriend cause he went crazy. She ashed Annabelle if she saw the story on Facetube . Annabelle said she did and she was surprised this would happen in this kind of neighborhood ,it seems so quiet.”Doom happens everywhere ,when the brain is not balanced .”Luz said. Annabelle feels Luz has a strange way of looking at things. After listening to Luz talk about her neighbors , Annabelle asked Luz if she would need anything? Annabelle did her routine check before she left Luz house.

That’s Annabelle Day activities, when she visit her clients in the year 2034.

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