Maroon
A short story of revenge, faith, and what it costs to end a war.
Revenge started the war.
Forgiveness will end it.
The year is 3016. America is divided between the wealthy western sectors and the starving east, and the Meager War has been burning for years.
Maroon-Alouette DuPont has grown up behind stone walls, an iron gate, and a family name that has outlasted wars, recessions, and revolutions. The DuPonts built their empire on oil. They have never had to ask what that empire cost anyone else.
Then the rebels come for Amelot, led by a girl barely older than Maroon, who knows exactly what the DuPonts said about the east, and has come to collect.
Told in three parts by an heiress, a rebel, and the rebel’s brother, Maroon asks what happens when revenge becomes the foundation of a nation, and whether faith can build something stronger.
Read the opening
“I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.”Jeremiah 25:10
November 30, 3016
Maroon couldn’t shake a tragic feeling. Like, something might befall her. Or, maybe, someone else. Her heart felt warm and her hands fuzzy; she rubbed them together absently.
Her family’s estate sat on a hill, and from her window she could see the streets of the city.
Maroon could almost feel the breeze through the glass. Late autumn had settled in, and the crisp chill of winter drew near. Fine scarves and gloves were beginning to sell in the markets.
Very little business this year, Maroon observed. The streets were nearly empty.
But of course, that was no surprise. The Meager War continued to escalate.
Her GrandMère called it a disgrace.
“All we do for them.” she would scoff. “And they wage war against us like a pack of dogs.”
The civil war lingered for years, rising and fading like a fever. But the sight of the quiet streets and empty storefronts… this time was different. People were hiding in their homes now, afraid of the attacks and kidnappings that could await them.
Some, however, carried on as though nothing had changed. They considered themselves untouchable, protected by wealth and pride.
Like her family.
The world of Maroon
A thousand years from now, the old divisions haven’t vanished. They’ve only found new names.
- Atherton
- The city below the DuPont estate. Its western neighborhoods glitter with gardens and polished stone. Its eastern districts stretch toward the horizon in crowded rows of brick and steel.
- Chatsworth
- What the city calls the DuPont estate on the hill. The family has another name for it: Our Little Amelot. One day it will belong to Maroon.
- DuPont Oil
- An empire that began in 1901, when an underground miner struck oil, and outlived every war, recession, and upheaval since.
- The western sectors
- Wealth, factories, and opportunity. Families like the DuPonts, who believe their name and fortune will shield them from anything.
- The eastern sectors
- The lands near Florida and Texas, denied oil, industry, and a future. People there starve and beg for work, and they remember who decided they were a lost cause.
- The Meagers
- The rebellion born in the east, built by orphans and refugees. They say they’re fighting for rights. The west calls them dogs.
Before it began
An underground miner strikes oil. The DuPont fortune begins.
The Meager War rises and fades like a fever between west and east.
The streets of Atherton are nearly empty. Maroon takes Fancy, the family’s young Saluki, out for a walk.
“They’re here.”
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