Wake Up, Iris.
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Last published Mon, Apr 21, 2025
In the town of Everspring, everything is perfect. The lawns are trimmed to mathematical precision. The families smile like mannequins. The children are flawless reflections of their parents. And every night at exactly 7 p.m., everyone takes their little grey pill - no questions asked.
Except Iris Levine is starting to ask.
At sixteen, Iris is everything the town wants her to be - beautiful, polite, obedient. But behind her perfect smile lies a storm of questions she's been trained not to ask. Why are the houses identical? Why is everyone so unnervingly calm? And what's really in those pills?
When she fakes swallowing her dose one evening, Iris begins to see cracks in the glossy façade of her life. A scream in the dead of night. A mysterious girl with gold hoop earrings and fire in her eyes. People vanishing without a trace.
The more Iris digs, the more she realizes that the truth isn't just unsettling - it's dangerous. Because in Everspring, dreaming is rebellion. And waking up? That's the start of a revolution.
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