Core Narrative 5 - Heartland

Title: Heartland

After the Blackout strikes, Texas begins gobbling up all the states nearby after their economic and military systems fail.

A story of resistance and hope in the face of innumerable odds, set in the Heartland of the American Mid-West. Through a series of found journals, a “documentarian” will catalog the experiences of the past and the heartbreak of those effected.

Protagonists will be varied people who wrote first hand accounts, but the main narrator reading and documenting is Emily Prescott, who is doing research after the wars have ended, to tell the stories of those long dead.

Antagonists are Authority One, who still exist and will be trying to actively silence not just Emily, but the people who wrote the journals.

Additive comprehension tells of the Rise of Imperialist Texas, and the struggles of Red Staters.

Target Audience is women age 30-45.