Looking Through the Glass
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Last published Thu, Mar 21, 2019
Ara Smith, a sixteen years old girl with the power to control others with her mind as long as she is is underwater, was taken from her parents at the age of three. She was brought that a government facility for people, like her, that just don't fit in. While there you soon learn that you're not really considered a human there, you're just considered a object. Follow Ara on her escape and her journey to find who she really is and what her life is really for.
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