Culturalappreciation Stories

My submission for the #ToAllTheBoysContest Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

Nadia Sindile knows nothing but this frigid wasteland anymore. There is nothing but the endless days she counts. It's been six years since the massacre of her family and village. Six years since she crawled out with barely her life, and three years since she was caught during the detainment of child orphans in an effort to cover up The Empire's genocide. Now trapped in a child internment camp north of her homeland, Nadia desperately searches for a way out, hoping that she can find her way to the rebellion against the empire. But as the reality of who she's leaving to wolves begins to surface, she realizes her only way out might might be with the very people she plans to kill. Offered a choice between death or a chance to become a weapon of the empire, this might be her only chance to avenge the death of her people from the inside. But that's only if she survives her training as an assassin. And she's not the only one with an agenda. But the truth about The Empire and it's vicious empress lies with Nadia's true past, a legacy she'd rather die before she sees it come to pass.