THE UNEXPECTED HAS HAPPENED by Michael P. Buckley

You’ll be used for your labor, as the great people of China, decide if you live or die. You are now our slaves. Your women belong to our men, to use or abuse at their leisure. If you have a problem with that, you will die.
    Woman, children, and men, separated. People over 49 and under 16, will have their own camp. People too sick to work will go with the over 49 group. Everyone will go to school, four hours a day to learn Mandarin, and Chinese history, after school you will work ten hours.
    Many tears were falling, and the people knew the over 49 and under 16 were going to be killed. There had to be at least 200 soldiers armed with rifles, machine guns and RPG 7 rocket launchers. They could not talk amongst themselves. Woman raped or killed around the clock, people who complained were shot or beheaded.
    Their rations were very poor, once a day, a little rice or whatever slop they could find to feed them. They had started farming and raising chickens for eggs and meat. Soldiers fed first. So many times, the people went hungry. No one ever had to endure the harsh life, before them now. Hatred for the Chinese grows everyday. Daily someone loses control and attacks a soldier, only to be shot or beheaded.
    One month has past and David looks for a chance to escape everyday, soon he will go even if it means he will probably die trying. Better to die, than to stay living in the camp.
    The Chinese army had the detainees build ten 4 ft x 4 ft boxes made of plywood and placed them far enough apart so there could not be communication between the boxes. The boxes used for interrogation purposes. There was no punishment needed, violators of camp laws, killed immediately. Before they captured David he was working for a small Chinese ran factory, everyone got along just find. Never in his wildest dreams did he think the Chinese could be so ruthless, and kill because they enjoyed watching Americans die.
    David knew and so did everyone else what happened to the over 49 and under 16 to include the sick. Later on during the day they removed the people, they all herd many gunshots. Following day, they could see smoke that appeared to becoming from a large incinerator.
    They killed them all. And then they burnt the bodies. He knew they were setting up the 4 ft x 4 ft boxes so they could use them to torture people. In giving information on the people, who were roaming in the woods and mountains throughout America.
    China had Russia and Australia beating on their door. They could not risk sending ships and fighter jets to America. They needed them in China to protect their motherland. They had no pilots to fly the planes the USA had, unless they captured pilots and re-trained them as Chinese soldiers. Not an easy task considered America hated China and they were just waiting to get revenge.
    China’s plan was nothing short of brilliant. They slowly saturated America with people and after a few years, no one even noticed anymore. It was expected by the people when they found jobs there boss would be Chinese. After a while, it did not seem strange or odd to anyone. This was normal for everyone.
    Slowly they were replacing big companies like Boeing. They were landing major contracts from the Military, for communication and weapons systems. Military bases that had strict security, now filled with Chinese people working on the bases. Installing and repairing communication and weapons systems. It was not long and the bases were starting to have 65 percent Chinese and 35 percent Americans.
    This happened so slowly no one caught it, and the Chinese were always well behaved.
    No one had a clue that in 2023 the current year they are in now, that America would be no more. The last few months have been a real revelation for David, never in his life has he witnessed such brutality shown against another, because they were American and not Chinese. The tents smelled of vomit and sweat. People were getting sick from malnutrition, they're not allowed to wash