Life in Utopia

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Our small town could be considered a utopia. The location is great, right next to the beach, there is no poverty, no racism and crime is non-existent with the exception of some robberies that have happened. Finding a job is really easy and as long as you are willing to work hard and acquire some skills you will get a promotion. I became my department's head in the local bank in only a year.Services like the police, the fire department and hospitals are excellent, but taxes aren't very high.

People are generally friendly and trustworthy, nobody is religious so it's pretty easy to form romantic relationships, and everyone was very welcoming when we first moved here.

People are strange though. Sometimes their actions will be completely out of the blue. You might get verbally abused by a good friend or get hit on by a happily married old lady. Though I kinda got used to that stuff.

Lately though, some even weirder shit has happened. A woman who was an experienced cook died in a house fire after leaving the hobs on for hours, the weirdest thing was that she had thrown away her fire alarm. I swear she had one, I saw it when I visited her about a month ago. Meanwhile some people have drowned in their pools, young, healthy, sober people drowning in their fucking pools.

My family just started acting strangely. My wife quit her job as a police officer and now just paints all day long. I bet her quitting has something to do with all the weird shit that's happening, but she hasn't told me anything. In fact she hasn't talked to me at all the past three days.

Today has been the scariest day of my life. I woke up really early and I had no control of my actions. I was feeling trapped inside my body. I didn't go to work and instead spent 4 hours on the treadmill, even though I was really hungry and tired. I only regained my body's control a few minutes ago, and after talking to my wife after days, I was unable to describe my experience, she was also unfazed by my abnormal behaviour this morning. The creepiest thing though, was that fucking green diamond hovering over my head.

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