Narrative publishes short fiction from the best emerging and established writers, sooo… I was fucking thrilled to have my story selected as their Story of the Week! This story started as very vivid dream I wrote down shortly after moving to a certain affluent suburb, then dreamed that the ladies in town all had to wear useless, expensive armored suits. I really recommend writing down your dreams, because I still can taste and smell and feel that dream, which ended with me being drafted into a violent resistance movement that had a lock on the clean water supply and advanced filtration technology. None of that made it into the final draft, which is completely mental nevertheless.