{"id":2005,"date":"2017-05-30T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fictitiousbooks.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:06:14","slug":"orphans-and-exiled-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fictitiousbooks.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/30\/orphans-and-exiled-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphans and Exiled Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solitanu's<\/p>\n

Orphans and Exiled Families: Divided Anticlock and Safronikan Identies<\/h2>\n

I’ve been reflecting on orphans and exiled families recently. I made contact with a Neblusian called Elejida soon after I started using the Lightning Link. I had to experiment with the Link at first. It took me some time to get to grips with the technical side of things. Max isn\u2019t too good at explaining anything to anybody. Once he\u2019d reached an agreement with me to write the blog, he left me pretty much to my own devices. So it took me a few attempts to get the hang of it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, after sending about six posts into the ether, I finally got this message from Elejida. She\u2019d stumbled across my blog by chance. I\u2019d almost given up hope of hearing from anybody and was even beginning to doubt that the Lightning Link actually worked.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take me long to realise that I was on the same wavelength as Elejida. I hadn\u2019t intended to reveal too much about myself in the blog. Apart from wanting to keep myself to myself, I still didn\u2019t really believe that Max\u2019s security system was 100% reliable. You never know when the Snoops might be listening in. But Elejida\u2019s personal story drew me out of my shell. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Once she\u2019d started talking about herself, it just seemed the right thing to do to tell her about me, however much it went against the \"Orphansgrain. She was an orphan who\u2019d lived all her life in Etherea, the capital city of Outer Neblus. She\u2019d never met her parents. It seems that there are many like her on Neblus where for the past forty years they\u2019d been living under a military dictatorship. Many children had been separated from their familes as part of the State\u2019s enforced educational policies. Elejida was one of thousands who\u2019d suffered this fate. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The similarity with my own situation in Anticlockwise was striking. The big difference though was that six months earlier there had been a revolution on Outer Neblus and the dictatorship had been overthrown. So they were all living in a state of euphoria. They were hopeful that the future of Outer Neblus would be bright – a far cry from the surveillance culture of Globopolis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was overjoyed to have made contact with Elejida. For the first time I\u2019d come across someone outside Anticlockwise who could understand what I was living through. It was like a dam bursting in my mind. The words just tumbled on to the screen in a spontaneous torrent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s how I came to reveal that I was an orphan too, and that I had no idea who my real parents were. I was born in Globopolis but after I’d been left to fend for myself, I\u2019d been adopted by a Safronikan, Orgiva Nuron, who\u2019d taken care of me as if I were her own son. I\u2019d gone to school in Federex, the capital city of Safronika, and made a life for myself there for eighteen years before I moved back to Globopolis to study at the Interpreters School. So even though I\u2019d been born in Globopolis, I felt that my real life had been stolen from me because I\u2019d been trapped in the city of my birth after the arrival of the Anticlocks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The only other person who knows all this of course is Tia. But she\u2019s as much a prisoner as\u00a0I am\u00a0in this dispiriting place. I felt so much better about life after I\u2019d explained to Elejida about my previous existence on Safronika, after I’d talked to her about the family from whom I was exiled: my mother Orgiva Nuron, my cousin Alacazarin Nuron and my best friend Motrilox Alba. We’re all orphans and exiled families in this Anticlock environment. I feel as if I\u2019ve abandoned my family in Safronika, but there\u2019s nothing I can do. There\u2019s no escape from Anticlockwise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing that there\u2019s someone outside this lunatic asylum to whom I can talk about my former life in Safronika helps.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Zeb Solitanu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\"Orphans\u00a9 Zeb Solitanu<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Zeb Solitanu sketch by Jill<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anticlockwise Journal<\/a> – a compilation of Solitanu’s Blog posts – is on sale at Amazon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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