By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
Last month more than a dozen people were summoned to Clorkenwelt Street, to the Medical Court, where they stood against charges for refusing to comply with orders to administer the vaccine to themselves, their children, or their parents, also being without exemption certificates that would have permitted a two-month extension for reasons of faith, illiteracy, or mental illness. Mr. Robert “Duke” Anderson, the Vaccination Enforcement Officer for Slice Province, acknowledged that some of the defendants did in fact possess exemptions but that they were obtained from local Justices of the Peace who did not possess the right under law to contravene provincial law. The judge who heard the case agreed with Mr. Anderson that the practice was highly irregular, and then launched into a long and perhaps not pertinent story of a boy he once knew at summer camp who had contracted polio but still managed to “court one of the prettiest girls in the entire state.” The surprise ending was that the boy was him.
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