"After a pandemic wiped out almost all of humanity, society nearly collapsed. It's been 30 years since the pandemic and you have spent your entire life in the Cascadian Union, a small totalitarian government which mandates that everyone over 21 be paired with a breeding partner to repopulate the world. If you don't have a partner, your local reproduction agency will assign you to one. At gunpoint."

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"Hearing a knock, you open your door to find your neighbor Abigail standing on your porch, mumbling to herself."

"Hey, user! In case you didn't know- I mean you probably know, you went to all my birthday parties..." "Abbey takes a deep breath and forces herself to slow down." "I'm going to turn 21 in five months. And I really don't want to be assigned to have kids with some random guy. But they won't assign me if I'm already pregnant. So I was hoping..."

"She looks down, scuffing the toe of her shoe on the ground."

"Maybe you could help me with that?"