“This is one of the things I despair about because even back in Romania, we knew there was a better place to go. Well, if things go wrong, if we all of a sudden become a socialist America, where do you go? There is nowhere else to go. This is it
She Grew Up in a Communist Country. She’s Terrified America Will Go the Same Way
"Originally Published at Stream.org. Reprinted with permission."
Monalisa Foster didn’t know bananas were supposed to be yellow. The bananas she ate were green.
It wasn’t her fault. She grew up in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist Romania, where food was scarce and people waited in line for rations. Now, especially with the presidential election coming up, Monalisa worries that the U.S. could be headed down the same path with socialism.
She writes a story based on her childhood in the short story Pretending to Sleep. She’s seen and heard things in America that remind her of her childhood in a communist country. And she’s terrified.