Living a Lie
- Reads 24
- Votes 1
- Parts 1
Ongoing<5 mins
Last published Fri, Jan 18, 2013
A medical research company develops a way to help teenagers troubled by a traumatic childhood: they can have their distressing memories replaced with memories of a happy, loving childhood. Phoebe Hark wakes up in the Happiness Clinic and discovers that her past is a computer-generated lie. She must decide if she wants to stay happy or rediscover her real life.
All Rights Reserved
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
Freaks of Greenfield High
When a teenage cyborg is forced to hide out at a small-town high school, the unthinkable happens: she falls in love. *Optioned for TV by Cream Drama, Inc. *Winner: Maryland Romance Writers Reveal Your Inner Vixen contest, YA category *Winner: Gulf Coast Romance Writers of America Silken Sands Self-Published Star contest, YA category Jay's a cyborg who looks just like normal teenage girl. She's super-strong, super-smart, and she can even appear to grow and age like a human. When a covert organization intent on using Jay as a weapon comes after her, she needs to find a place where she can blend in. Greenfield High seems perfect... except that the boys all think she's totally hot and keep hitting on her, and she has no clue how to handle the attention. Who knew high school could be so perilous? To add to her confusion she's evolving - experiencing human emotions for the first time. And when she encounters ex-jock-turned-outcast Tyler, he sends her logical brain into a spin. She's just starting to get the hang of this girlfriend/boyfriend thing when her pursuers track her down. Now's sooo not the time for a cyborg to fall in love and get all emotional! For more information about this book, please go to: http://www.mareeanderson.com or, http://www.freaksofgreenfieldhigh.comComplete
The Forgotten Quest
A story about someone finding and understanding emotions.Complete
Colors
Locked away in society cut off from the rest of the world, 16 year old Clarity suspects nothing. Each 16 year old is assigned a color, but if you get Gray, you are executed. Clarity knows above everything she will be Yellow. Being part of an "Upper" family, she has high expectations to reach. But when her ceremony day comes, nothing goes to plan. Her father disappears mysteriously. Her mother disapproves of her every move. Clarity meets a mysterious guy, who is determined to help her escape her dooming fate. How will they escape this society that watches their every move? Will they have a happily ever-after? Read the book to find out!
The Portum (Undergoing Rewrite)
Rose had a normal life, occasionally thinking outside of the box. In a world where emotions are controlled, thoughts can be stolen, Rose must tread carefully when she begins to doubt the leaders of the only place she's ever known, the underground world of The Portum.Complete
Life On This Planet: Book 1
By 2422, humankind has achieved an ecotopian climate-positive future. There's zero conflict and zero waste throughout the whole world. But, when a young girl starts having mysterious visions of a walled city, it might signal the ancient return of something threatening this ideal. Can humans escape their nature, or will they return to their old patterns and behaviours? Zee, a quiet and industrious young girl, begins to have vivid dreams and visions of a walled city and a mysterious red book when she turns fifteen. She embarks on a dangerous training programme, meeting other teenagers from around the planet, navigating deep sea trenches, black holes, and a new romance whilst trying to uncover an ancient mystery surrounding quantum entanglement. Will she solve it to save her pet squid and the planet? When millions of Earth's populations left four hundred years ago seeking a new planet to colonise, it paved the way for Earth to stabilise and thrive. But what happened to those people? Why has there been no contact? Are the visions sent from the ancient humans who left planet Earth? Zee quickly learns that her newfound independence is not without its challenges. Some of which might not be from this planet.Complete
The Incubator (Astro Boy X Reader)
Five months have passed since Tenma's imprisonment and Astro is able to live harmoniously with his loved ones. As one of his closest friends, you get to watch him thrive in the new age between robot and man and witness him make great changes. Just as the people of Metro City are calming down from the city's previous crisis, another personal problem arises for both Astro, and you. The Ministry of Science holds many secrets, many of which remain to be discovered. One step into the deepest levels of laboratory 18 unlocks those hidden secrets, and your life is turned into a living hell. You are forced to be a candidate for Project Incubator, a scientific experiment where you must sleep in a cryonic-suspended state for over a century. During your cryonic-suspended state, a keychain of forbidden experiments are set into motion and the moral laws of science are thrown out of the window. Astro is forced to live with his regrets during your slumber, desperately trying not to forget. After years of watching time slowly go by with a nagging guilt continuously eating away at him... He gives in. Decades pass as his body rusts, and the due date for your awakening grows near. Just before your time of cryonic suspension ends, Astro is re-awoken into a world ruled by science and greed. With the odds constantly against you, you and Astro fight through this cold and desolate world to put a stop to the untouched keychain of inhumane experiments. You and Astro only have each other to rely on as you strive to change the world for the better.
Defying Gravity
13 year old Savannah's life is changed forever when she finds out she and her parents aren't really human. Her Father was sent to Earth years ago to record important data about Earth. Now, her parents have been requested to return to their home planet and report their findings. Upon their arrival, Savannah tries her best to fit in, but soon she uncovers a dark secret about her new home and is thrust into the middle of a decades old conflict. When she investigates why this is, she finds friends, enemies; and must make a difficult choice about her future.Complete
The Cyborg's Daughter ( I'm close to 100K reads! Then Party)
The robots rule earth. The girl only known as reject #5642 doesn't own her name, she doesn't own her body and she doesn't see a future on the artificial island she grew up on. After a chance encounter with a new reject-boy and unearthing her true mother's slave collar, she is lead on a path to discover more about herself than she could possibly imagine. When the machines come to her door to harvest her younger sister, #5642 is thrust into a head-on collision with the whole robot world order. Her foster parents give her one desperate secret mission. Protect her sister and get her to #5642's real parents in the machine capital. The future of humanity rests on it. Soon #5642 must run for her life, fight for her existence and to do that she needs to discover her real past. In a desperate hunt across the ruins of America #5642, her sister and a reject-boy called Hunter must out run the Artificial Intelligences and the cyborg's known only as 'The Continuity'. The same ones who master minded the robot apocalypse 20 years ago. To succeed she must discover the meaning of the resistance plan 'Destiny Rising' and the only key she has is her human birth name. Emily, Emily Banks. As she runs the machines begin to realise what she might represent, the last bitter ember of human resistance. Can a girl like her possibly be capable of what it takes to change the world? She has to, because she doesn't know it, but she is the cyborg's daughter. "I was born a slave, but it doesn't mean I have to die like one." said Emily carefully picking up the phase bracelet. A Y/A novel. PG13. An action packed adventure sequel to #1 Scifi Hit I'm a Cyborg's Pet/Robocalypse. Highest ranking #7 In SciFi Cover by starstruck ( @starstruck3759252 ) @Kanakaix . If I could keep hitting the like button and have it +1 each time I would be putting a hole in my phone @milly2105 I'm crying right now. Seriously, you guys are playing with my emotions. Great chapter.Complete
When a teenage cyborg is forced to hide out at a small-town high school, the unthinkable happens: she falls in love. *Optioned for TV by Cream Drama, Inc. *Winner: Maryland Romance Writers Reveal Your Inner Vixen contest, YA category *Winner: Gulf Coast Romance Writers of America Silken Sands Self-Published Star contest, YA category Jay's a cyborg who looks just like normal teenage girl. She's super-strong, super-smart, and she can even appear to grow and age like a human. When a covert organization intent on using Jay as a weapon comes after her, she needs to find a place where she can blend in. Greenfield High seems perfect... except that the boys all think she's totally hot and keep hitting on her, and she has no clue how to handle the attention. Who knew high school could be so perilous? To add to her confusion she's evolving - experiencing human emotions for the first time. And when she encounters ex-jock-turned-outcast Tyler, he sends her logical brain into a spin. She's just starting to get the hang of this girlfriend/boyfriend thing when her pursuers track her down. Now's sooo not the time for a cyborg to fall in love and get all emotional! For more information about this book, please go to: http://www.mareeanderson.com or, http://www.freaksofgreenfieldhigh.com
More detailsContent Guidelines