Pre-dystopian Stories

It was two years since the start of the famine and with an hour before the new years began in Ranaroque, Yenith, a homeless yet brilliant man, delighted that the awful year was to be put behind him. Though starting with a banquet, he was thrown into various trouble that made that final hour feel like a year. One such incident put him square in the path of a sickle-wielding pregnant woman that made Yenith think that the year would never end when he only wished for a restart in life. He only realized seconds before the clock struck twelve that he had a change of heart. Dammit, and he only just reached out to the deadly armed and equally deadly-named woman. Such a fickle man. Why did his mind change indeed?

"The perfect world carries a deadly price." 435 young adults travel to the city of Caelum, an experimental establishment hovering 1000 meters above the Atlantic Ocean. But what they don’t know is this: They are not allowed to leave. * * * * * As part of a confidential experiment created in the hopes of proving to an overpopulated world that life above land is possible, 435 young individuals have been specially selected to live in Caelum, a city hovering 1000 meters above the Atlantic Ocean. Arden Cassidy is one of these individuals. The primary reason she accepts the invitation lies in the city’s secrecy—she wants to find out why Caelum’s creators specifically selected her to participate in the experimental living trial. But when connections to the continents are inexplicably cut, and seemingly “natural” disasters begin to threaten those living on land below, a girl named Breanne Nevitt recruits Arden and a small group of unlikely Caelum initiates to uncover the real purpose of the city’s existence, and do everything it takes to escape a cage disguised as a utopian society. © Copyright 2015