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The Municipality

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Reads 489
Votes 16
Parts 1
Time 8m

dystopian mystery sci-fi

A civilization closed off from the outside world that is known as the Municipality is made up of people who have long forgotten how they even came to the city. 

The people are isolated from the world and pressured to segregate themselves into two communities- the mezmires, who develop Abilities in their youth due to a genetic modification- and the normalems, who have none to speak of. 

The Municipality's history is stained by the blood of innocent normalems under the long tyranny of the mezmires, and the blood of innocent mezmires during the Insurrection. 

The Insurrection's fiftieth anniversary is fast approaching when fourteen-year-old Lien Ki, known as Anj by friends and acquaintances, a mezmire, disappears, and two of her best friends, mezmires Skye Chetwynde and Lucas Slora are who the authorities point their fingers at. Skye, Lucas, and Anj's friend circle begin an investigation to find their friend, struggling to prove themselves innocent in a civilization that is unforgiving to mezmires for their past cruelty to those born normal. 

As their investigation continues, they realize that to discover the truth, they will have to go back past a time that no one wants to talk about, to a time no one alive remembers.All Rights Reserved

dystopian mystery sci-fi

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Tue, Apr 27, 2021

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Clackers

There is nothing as powerful in life as your first love. When this happens after clacking to a strange new world where people reverse age-let's say it's complicated. Demalynn is a seventeen-year-old girl from a small town who one day hears a loud 'clack' and is transported to the planet Saffire. Naked. Then things really get weird. No child has ever been born on Saffire; clackers make up the entire population. All people who clack under thirty reverse age: each year they grow younger. As an awkward teenager plagued by panic attacks who dabbles in comedy, Demalynn just wants to go home to be re-united with her family. Citizens over thirty grow old and are forced to mine the mineral that powers giant cooling stations to keep the planet habitable. Citizens solve disputes with gladiatorial combat. The prophesy of The Coming In Saffire's time of greatest need, a child will be born to a special woman, the Gravidarum. The child, who has no father of this planet, will be known as the Unum, a child to lead Saffire. The Helper will battle to keep the Gravidarum safe until the Unum is born. The people of Saffire have been waiting to see The Coming fulfilled. Demalynn assembles a group of clackers to get her home, the most important of which is a fellow clacker: eighteen-year-old Aiden. It is not long before Jago, the ruler of Saffire, learns that a woman on Saffire is pregnant and he unleashes all his power to prevent the birth. Jago will not give up power. Demalynn is surprised to find out she is the Helper, but is astounded to learn the identity of the Gravidarum. Demalynn must battle to stay alive and fumbles towards the realization that Aiden is much more than a close friend. She is certain, with the certainty that only a seventeen-year-old can possess, that Aiden is her only true love. Demalynn is desperate to find a way back home until she must make a choice: stay with Aiden on Saffire or go back home and re-unite her family. There's no place like home.