Tomorrow Girl - A Short Story in Shanghai - Dmitri Ragano

Tomorrow Girl - A Short Story in Shanghai

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Reads 1,723
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Parts 4
Time 24m

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An international flash fiction thriller for the USA Network TV series DIG.

Tomorrow Girl dolls are America's latest billion-dollar toy craze. Every young girl in the USA is begging her parents to buy one.

On the other side of the world, migrant workers toil in the company's Shanghai assembly plant earn dollars a day, assembling dolls they will never be able to afford to give to their own children. 

After the company CEO is murdered, the Tomorrow Girl toy factory becomes the center of an international investigation. People from vastly different circumstances, Americans and Chinese, rich and poor, powerful and humble, must work together to prevent to a horrific terrorist attack.All Rights Reserved

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