The Handyman's Manual

This started as a short story and slowly developed into a dark and twisted dystopian world that I am enjoying filling out.

Taking place in a possible future where humanity is forced to escape the wildness and danger beyond city limits, walled mega cities called citadels are built to preserve the remaining colonies of earth. As population rises, crime quickly gets out of hand and the leaders of the citadels call on the help of privately owned and controlled mercenaries called Handymen.

The story revolves around two main characters. Alice is a street urchin scrounging a living under a gang that survives by stealing and committing petty crimes, who is thrown into the grim and often psychotic world of the handymen. Eli is an experienced handyman and is one of the few to believe that the handyman program can be used for good rather than the violence that it's known for.