Awakening
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Last published Tue, Mar 3, 2020
In a society where all people are turned into mindless zombies with emotion controlling chips, Echo, Raven, Infinity, Ivory, Nyx, and Zeke are the only people with free minds, since their parents removed their chips when they were babies. That is, until one fateful day, when the chips shut down. With repressed psychopathy and the panic of experiencing emotions for the first time in their lives, the world becomes hostile and dangerous. Only our six heroes are functioning. What will they do? What should they do?
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