Edge of Story

Where’s my bread? I’ve worked my whole life for our cause. Backbreaking labor making machines so we could have a self-sustaining economy, and do I get what I am due? My retirement fund, promised to me from the government for my long years of service, was what I was given. It was a meager amount of cash that I gave back to our government so they could further our cause. In return the promised to keep me clothed and fed. It was the bare minimum, but I was willing. They also said sweet things, like that they’d “be forever in my debt.” Now that I’m hungry and I need their aid more than ever, they turn their back on me.

Why is it that we promise freedom, and enlightenment, and hope when our people are starving. Enlightenment may have been our original purpose, but enlightenment won’t fill and empty stomachs. Knowledge does no good if one has nothing to eat. You can’t eat a book. Currently, the Eastern Empire is offering favorable terms.

Here at Money Watch, your favorite newspaper covering the day-to-day economics of Vision, have discovered a breaking news story about our grain supply. This previous year, as all of you very well know, we experienced a great drought. This compounded by the arrival of locusts has severely affected our crop this year.

We speak to all those who remember when newspapers were supposed to present the truth, not just the truth of the facts, but our truths. Newspapers can be used to give the news but they can also be used to open up a window into all of our lives. We at the Daily Blurb are committed to providing a new Newspaper that is about you.