Pedaling
By Tuere T. S. Ganges, first published in FIYAH
In a lawless America, a tribe of vagabond minority teenagers stumble upon a town controlled by a White supremacist militia that eats non-White people and must rescue the captives before it's too late.
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After a government uprising that triggered chaos and lawlessness across America, a tribe of vagabond minority teenagers, led by a Black 17-year-old named Trini, pedals around the post-apocalyptic roads to search for their new home.
They come across a small town where life goes on as if the apocalypse didn’t happen, but the occupants are all White and blond. Trini spots a Black kid named Lee who tells them that the town is run by a White supremacist militia that commits cannibalism on kidnapped non-White people. Lee begs Trini to save his sister, who is locked away with other victims in one of the two barns inside town. As one of her tribes create a diversion, Trini and her girlfriend, Beatbox, break into the barns. To their dismay, the people inside are locked in cages. As Trini looks for keys to one barn, Beatbox is captured by White men in the other.
After she frees the people from her barn, Trini and her crew, armed with weapons, enter the other barn where Beatbox is held hostage. Trini inspires the captives inside to rise up, take down their White wardens and escape. Trini’s brother, Sauce, leads the newly liberated to a good plot of land for their new home.
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