The Rainbow Kids

A dystopian short story

Photo by Nicola Fioravanti on Unsplash

Beyond the cracked sidewalk, and the telephone pole with layers of flyers in a rainbow of colors, and the patch of dry brown grass, there stood a ten-foot high, concrete block wall caked with dozens of coats of paint. There was a small shrine at the foot of it with burnt out candles and dead flowers and a few soggy teddy bears. One word of graffiti filled the wall; red letters on a gold…