The Free Use Cult

The sunset over the Rocky Mountains was one of the most beautiful things she had ever seen. For months she and her husband had been preparing for this, selling their house and any possessions that they wouldn’t need or that couldn’t fit in the Volkswagen so they could find their true calling together. It started with a letter the woman had found addressed directly to her advertising a living community in the Rocky Mountains. With it’s only rules for staying were that you would follow the rules of the commune, it was very appealing to two twenty-somethings who were under the stress of the economy while just trying to survive.

The leader of the cult, a man named “Lawrence Kurtz” was your classic hippie with curly hair down to his shoulders and a neat full beard. He had started the group about 5 years prior, protesting the **** of the US government and wanting to create “a society without weapons” the woman was under the impression that the cult had died off or fallen apart some time after they stopped appearing in the newspapers, but apparently not. Apparently they wanted to recruit her and her husband as they would be “perfect fits” for the community.

After a brief but serious discussion, they started the process that led them to where they were now, pulling up to the gates of the commune, hours away from the nearest cell signal or power line. A field of solar panels indicated that the place wouldn’t be completely without power, but it was still very firmly off the grid.