The Perfect Little Town

You can read this essay HEREBreak Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber.I am slowly but surely recording all of my essays. Here’s one I wrote a year ago, not long after I first started writing on Substack. Sit back, close your eyes, and listen…There once was a perfect little town. The houses were all painted a soft shade of gray and looked the same, so no people felt left out. There were numbers on the doors, so no people got confused. There were no parents and there were no children. There were no men and there were no women.All such divisive labels had been dropped long ago.There were people. And they were all united as one. There were no reasons to feel jealous or sad. There were no reasons to feel anything at all, except when watching the screens…Thank you for listening. Please share, comment and subscribe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe