Mind to Metal

Carly Taylor entered into a new world after a military plane crashed at her school. The event blasted her with pieces of metal along with embedding a piece into her skull, too fatal to remove. While paralyzing her from the waist down, she became technokinetic, a mystery to herself and everyone else if they knew. Years later, she risked exposing herself by entering a summer internship of a lifetime with the U.S. Cyber Security. It was one step closer to uncovering secrets about her past that only a database of confidential files could reveal. With luck, her new knowledge would fill the hole in her and allow her to begin the carefree life she always wanted.

Of course, her technokinesis, if discovered by the wrong people, could lock her in a research lab for good. And at twenty-one years old, a sophomore in college, in a wheelchair, and amazingly gifted with computers, her existence itself drew more attention than she could ever want. It became a race to discover the truth as summer came to a close and more people began to suspect something fishy about Carly.

While Carly's task was seemingly easy, it came with sorting out who she could trust and who was toxic.

She was never good at choosing good company to begin with.

This story includes some inappropriate language for some readers. Read at your own risk.