Despite the dark undertones of this piece, I did enjoy the process of writing it. I feel as though dystopian novels often comment on the harms of big government and I wanted to push back on that mainstream narrative. Instead, I wanted to comment on the harms of an ineffective small government allowing for neoliberalism and capitalism to further consume our society. 

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As I noted earlier, I wanted to incorporate elements of reality (e.g. working-class people donating plasma in order to make ends meet) with elements of exaggeration (e.g. politicians arguing over increasing the minimum wage by $0.50). I think there are some areas for improvement regarding making my descriptions more vivid, particularly the description of Nazia and Ayan’s home and maybe adding more details that capture the personalities of the two characters.  

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Since I do feel like my outline for this story is fleshed out, I feel like there is a clear direction in which the plot of my piece is going. My biggest concern was fusing satire with flash fiction especially that I struggled to find many pieces online that accomplished both of those things. That being said, I hope that I was able to accomplish all of my aforementioned goals in this short sample.