Here's a bit of an excerpt from what might become a book. "Ritual":
It's 2047, and things have gone a bit... Different from what people might have expected. America's government has taken a turn for the zealously religious, like the older Britain it split off from. Practice of any religion besides Catholicism, Christianity, or any religion not praising the big G in the sky is outlawed, atheism is heavily looked down on, and cults are treated like religious terrorist cells.
That being said, many people still practice their own beliefs, just in different ways. Jonathan Sebastian Crowe, known simply as 'Crowe' to his friends and 'Ritual' to his fans, Is an underground (sometimes literally) electronic musician.
He is renowned for the amazing and almost magical physical feats he performs on-stage, something he attests to so-called "pseudo-magic". Something the local police seem quite interested in
Recently however, much to his fans despair, he has been caught and brought in for questioning. Only time will tell what becomes of him now.