A billion-dollar clone, bought and raised as an extremely dangerous weapon, strikes out against those who manufacture and harvest clones for spare parts. ***** Duplicates are used for one thing: spare parts. Kept in Emulation Facilities, brain-dead and hooked to machines, duplicates never open their eyes. As a transplant nurse, Evette Ashford knows this better than anyone -- until a living, breathing duplicate shatters her life. Merely knowing he exists drags Evette into a deep, dark world of manipulation, danger, and control. Evette knows he just wants to find himself, but the corporation that created him are furious he's broken their control. So Evette must decide who to trust: the monster who forced her into this chaos or the monster who created him. [[IC Universe People's Choice]] [[1st Place, Writers' Olympics Dystopian Award]] [[1st Place, Oscar Sci-fi Award]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story is rated PG-13 for violence, language, and sexual content. This story will become free on January 31st!

Alexa Maria Anderson, Quite, Shy, Sober, Naive, Scared out of place.... Caged 17year old, locked away from the real world, with rules and fear of the unknown. Day after day, encounter after encounter, step by step, stage after stage she unexpectedly faced with reality and real world with no rules, no holding back no fear. Where her real self erupts like a volcano. Where she face and encounter life and realized its not what the had imagine it to.

Nature's kind and cruel pulls and pushes described in a few poems.