The Sickness

The Sickness

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Science Fiction
The Sickness nearly wiped the Earth clean. It spread fast, and couldn't be contained by the FDA or the government. It took hundreds, including Theresa's family, and those healthy were sent to stations spread out around the world. With her prestigious and natural skills, Theresa Dawning is taken away from what she has left. She's sent to be trained by Grayson Williams, a man recognized for his equal strength and intelligence. He trains many young adults, but he especially pays attention to Theresa. Where she thinks she will only be trained to perfection, she isn't expecting any surprises just days after arriving to her new "home." For a place renowned for it's highly intelligent and trained inhabitants, Station 0.5 has made many mistakes. Mistakes that can't be fought with just brains and negotiations.
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In the quiet desert village of Dey, living among the sand dunes and mirages, existed an anomaly - me. I was different, born without the ability to read, write or keep long memories. My scientist father hailed my uniqueness as a miracle, but my life was far from ordinary. To the village, I was just an oddity, a walking puzzle with missing pieces. My only solace was my best friend, always standing by me, his unspoken love for me etched in his affectionate gaze. We lived under a cruel regime with a population no more than a hundred. Every year, one of us would be chosen on the Counting Day, a ceremonious banishing ritual, to become yet another outcast to the floating prison island far off in the ocean - our village's dreaded version of population control. Our past criminals, defiant to government, and more terrifyingly, our loved ones gone missing, were thought to inhabit that island, their fate, a terrifying enigma. This year, as the Counting Day approached unrelentingly, and my loved one's life rested on borrowed time, I made a decision. I volunteered to be casted out. It was my turn to face the unknown with a hidden purpose - to locate my lost father who was sent there years ago.

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