Now a digital pilot for SYFY The Society knows when we're going to die. They imprint it on our arms at birth. I was supposed to die yesterday. I'm the girl who's Expired. Winner of the 2020 Readers Choice Awards Cover by @Forcade

FIRST BOOK IN THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND SERIES ONE MISSTEP Can cost you your life. ONE WRONG WORD Can earn you your worst enemy. ONE WRONG THOUGHT Can drive you insane. ONE WRONG TURN Will lead you to your death. ONE MISCLICK Can enter you into the Pestilention. Welcome to the Devil's Playground, play the game if you dare. ~~~ Once the dramatic TV shows got too boring for the world, people pushed away Hollywood for the newest type of entertainment. The Pestilention is a deadly obstacle course aired live for billions to watch. Only children and young adults between fifteen and twenty-five are allowed to enter, using their luck and skills to survive the game and each other. Katherine Parsons, an unwilling tribute of the course, is forced to rely on fear and luck against the most skilled players of the course yet. ~~~ This story was: #80 in Science Fiction on 10/2/17 #77 in Science Fiction on 12/5/17 #53 in Science Fiction on 8/28/17 Wow! You guys are so amazing! If you do enjoy this story, please don't forget to vote and share it with your friends. Thank you, and read on! :)

For 17 year old Benna Denman, it's hard enough being the president's daughter. And when she develops a telepathic Link, life gets even worse. Her father isn't impressed with this new evolutionary ability. It means he could lose control over people's communications - in a world without cell phones, publicly accessible internet, or a postal service, it's difficult for dissent to spread and uprising to organize. That's just the way he likes it. So when the government starts offering cash in exchange for these telepaths, and Benna is under suspicion by both her boyfriend and her powerful father, she knows she's in trouble. Upon discovering that the cold Dr. Frenchwood plans to use her as a lab rat to develop a cure for telepathy, Benna and her Link, a boy named Corin, decide to try to run... First place for best fantasy/sci fi in @Gossamersilverglow's Best Fiction Competition 2016 Best Female Character @Gossamersilverglow's Best Fiction Competition 2016 Made to it the Elite Eight of @Fantasci's The Chosen One Competition 2016/17

Bones, quite a few bigger than her own body, lay in a sick black circle on the ground. Where the grass should have lay, a dark mess of revolting death sat. Like the dirt had come alive with death itself. Sticking up from the black goo, yellow bones sat. Cracked, Nauseating things, their smell as repulsive and gut wrenching as things could get. Dark flesh sat in areas, shredded to hell. How could this thing have ever have been alive? Thoughts tumbled through her mind as she buried her muzzle into the ground, never taking her eagle eyes from the horrifying, gruesome scene in front of her. Her world was not like this. the song of the wolf, so scared and so clear, the pelt of the cub, filled with the scent of fear. the claws of the lion, covered in hate, the eyes of the eagle, searching for its mate. the body of the panther, with muscles like stone, the brain of a human, lounging on its imaginary thrown. terrifying, only an animal at its best? chimera, hiding in its nest. His nightmare bones.