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The Great San Francisco Wall
And the great San Francisco purge. A dystopian tale set in 2030.
It was in 2025 that The Great San Francisco Wall was completed. Ever since Donald Trump started building a border wall, an explosion of wall building commenced throughout the land as groups of people walled themselves off from other groups of people.
Nationally, it was known as The Great Separation. Citizens separated into polarized camps then built walls to keep others out and to keep those within the walls from escaping. Of course, wall building had begun before Trump back when the super rich began building walls around their lavish estates but it was not until Trump that wall building became extremely popular and spread to the masses.
Sitting on a precarious peninsula, the city of San Francisco could not build a wall completely encircling the city. So a tall impenetrable wall (one designed to withstand a 9.0 earthquake) was built all along the southern border of San Francisco then guard towers were built at short intervals all along the waters that formed the east, north, and west city boundaries. There were armed guards in those towers ready to shoot and kill anyone attempting to swim out of the city or into the city.
The bridges became armed entry points that only allowed trucks with essential consumer…
