Revenge

He signs himself over to clear his debts. At auction the bidding opens at five years and each bid takes time off the term, so one mocked defect costs him seven more. The two men who buy him used to report to him, and spent a year arranging his ruin.

by Richard Davies

Two sophomores read that the jock who bullied them through school has been enslaved for three years, and go to the auction house to look. The narrator borrows from his slaver uncle to make the price. They sell him on at a profit six months later, hoping the buyers apply to stretch three years into ten.

by Billy Billy

The whites lost the war, so wages become coupons, coupons become debt, and debt becomes a collar. Blacks rule, Latins join them, and the narrator strolls past each frozen frame gloating. Free whites abroad are lured home by tourist offers and processed at the border.