The Cleansing Period
I only speak of The Cleansing Period when I know I am alone; It's forbidden. We're told we have grown so indolent, too far away from primal instincts that the normal human being wouldn't survive away from all the city's technology. That's why we are banished for our sixteenth year, to release our sloth into the wild before we are allowed to return to civilisation. But I don't feel Lazy, I don't feel gluttonous. In an Isolated Village, Minka Cambell is banished along side their other 16 year old friends to the northern forest to face the wilderness - and each other - for a year. They must rid themselves of their dangerous laziness before returning purified and ready to work - if they are lucky.…