the revolution starts in America

the revolution starts in America

fiction
edward w pritchard

After a long shift of loading trucks Rencel Jones was walking to his car at 2AM and both of the palms of his hands simultaneously burst into flames. The pain was not intense but Rencel knew that something significant had happened. He alone knew that the fire had occurred without any external encouragement.

Rencel began to tell the story and made the connection that he was walking under a full moon and intensely thinking about the inequity of him struggling to make ends meet working till 2AM as his bosses slept and received the lion's share of his labors.

As Rencel began to spread the word of his revelation workers similarly placed as himself were supplied with fire proof gloves by management at no cost to themselves thereafter by company owners throughout the country. In the end however the actions were of no avail because something significant had happened to Rencel Jones.