... Forget “Last Year at Marienbad.” I really wish I could do “The Abandoned Ones” thing. Big plots, familiar characters – it’s a huge box office/publishing success thanks to millions of Keepers of the Deity. After all, the Rapture is their sacred story. Did you know there’s even a special version for kids? Here’s a jacket blurb:
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WICKED TIMES AT ANTICHRIST HIGH
School's back in session, and wickedness is in the set of courses. Jewell, Rikki, Lynn and Rusty -- The Young Affliction Corps, a crack team of the Deity’s abandoned orphans -- return from spring break to find their school has just been renamed Zuftaza Humanisto High after the UN's new secretary-general, whom their scripture-guru and Bible mentor, Brouhaha Shedes, declares is the Antichrist. The polished, menacing Humanisto has already begun planning a one-earth government, religion and coinage, so the Young Affliction Corps must get innovative. They start “The Subversive Tribe,” a secret school television station that reports the true story of the Rapture and Humanisto's wicked plans for earth domination. The Young Affliction Corps all pitch in to make their pirate TV station happen, despite pressure from Humanisto’s faculty and even a strange, possibly demonic collapse of the station’s secret broadcasting antennae. Rikki is arrested as public enemy number one, wanted for her part in producing “The Subversive Tribe.” Refusing to turn in her pals, Rikki gets inserted into the wicked place— the U.N.’s infamous Normpart Internment Camp in Arizona. But she makes it out because she's been adopted by a foster family... none other than the Bible mentor himself, Brouhaha Shedes! And the Young Affliction Corps, still committed to spreading the truth about the Rapture and the rise of Humanisto as the Antichrist, adds its newest member, Chatty, a young Jewish televangelist. “Wicked Times at Antichrist High” is the fifth installment of “The Abandoned Kids,” the children’s version of Giles de Jeer and Ike Havoc's Rapture hit, “The Abandoned Ones.” ...
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