For the next few days, I buried myself in research about our Controlled World. I knew they (whoever 'they' were) had to be doing the experimenting on-planet, so I searched for abandoned warehouses. I came up with seventy across the entire planet, and using the autopsy reports of how long ago they were harmed compared to where they were found, I narrowed it down to just seven. I set out immediately, the Righteous Forces on speed dial. The first three were empty, the fourth one was a drug den, and the fifth had been demolished. I hit gold on the sixth one – security enforcers outside, DNA and RNA scanners and facial recognition cameras. I had to figure out a way in...
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Human Nature (A Dystopian Short Story)
Teen FictionElide Smith lives in The Controlled Earth, the planet created to banish inequality and divisions in the human race. Equality, Inclusion, Acceptance is their motto. There's no such thing as the right religion, a better job, a purer colour anymore. Th...
