The bi0-mechanic crawled out from under the car.

Is it bad?

Well son, your car's got cancer.

Cancer?

Yep. They'res a large tumor right above your front wheels and another malignant growth near the engine, and if I had to guess, they're probably more. These models are supposed to have a realll tight biogrowth suppression rythm. About the only thing I can think of that would mess with it would be AAIDS.

AAIDS?

Sure, automotive AIDS. Your car hasn't been sharing fluids with anything from the meatyard, has it? Giving another car a jump, perhaps? Swapping parts.....

you're not a carophile are ya boy?

The term boy took on a suspicious tone.

No sir. Never sir. Those freaks make me sick.

Well, somehow your car got tha AIDS. I can order some anti-biotics but it's pretty far along and we can't just scrap it. It's infected.

He casually walked over to the trash can and threw away the gloves.

Damn it. This is what biomechanical cars get us. Anti-biotics and coolant refills. Automotive AIDS. PETC, People for the ethical treatment of cars. Mechanics screw you even harder now, and everything involved in cars is a nightmare of flesh and machinery. Still, fuel efficency is great, because cars don't use fuel anymore. They still have mechanical parts for things like radio and airconditioning, but in the battle between flesh and metal, flesh is winning. It's all technology though. Anything even resembling "nature" passed long before my time. Despite this change, the future is not all that different. Things have continued on the same steady path, with technological revolutions changing what we can do, but in practice having little impact on what people choose to do.

"we did not win the war, but neither did we lose. The great struggle was concluded as a stalemate. The German Reich retained austria, luxemborg, parts of denmark, and the danzig corridor. The Nazi party survived intact, and they continued on until multi-party democracy was introduced after the death of hitler in 1965. Today, the nazi party holds almost half of the seats in the reichstag and forms a government with a coalition of several small parties."

The lunch bell rang and we went to the cafeteria.

"what did you think of all that?" Fritz asked me.

It's hard to say.

After school, we watched the game.

It was the hindenburg high jews against the west high knights.

"that's really sick" Sophie told me. We destroy the jews, take thier land, gold, factories, and the rest. Now they live in tiny ghettos which are crime ridden and impoverished because our government refuses to allow any real investments or take responsibility."

We had to do it. They were a criminal foreign element. They sabotaged a lot of things before the war, and the rest. Still, they're smart, and good fighters. Anyway, what do you want us to do now? the past is the past. We can't go back and kick out all the germans who live in homes and areas that used to be jewish.

The society, the plans for an aryan race, the plans for drang nacht osten, all have come to nothing. We were all in hitler youth, but we were youth. They liked to see us marching and singing in our uniforms. We seemed like a symbol of eternity. But we got older. After turning 18 and leaving the hitler youth, less than 5 percent of our number went on to become party members. Memories of games and summer camps were all that remained. We lost interest. We were secure in defense, humbled by failure to achieve victory. After the war, hitler was broken. He realized that he brought germany to ruin. He didn't make a public appearance for 5 years after the war. Rumors were that he had died. He spent the time crying on the shoulder of albert speer, looking at endless pictures of leveled german cities and designing housing for the millions of homeless. The entire country was 'jueden free' but it brought us no solace. Hitler did not have another war left in him. He had challenged stalin to the most titantic clash of all time and he had lost. It was all the more painful because he was still alive and still in control to see it all. Having to repair the damage done is much worse than simply being punished for it. He ordered that all the heroic posters and statues be destroyed. He gave up on the thousand year reich. He spoke only of the next four year plan, on living for this moment, just holding, just surviving this year, moving forward by inches.