This is Part 18 in a series. The other seventeen should be read first for maximum enjoyment and understanding.

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---------What a mess. The Compound wants to kill me, or at least has no problem killing me if ( Read more... )

This is Part 17 in a series. The other sixteen should be read first for maximum enjoyment and understanding.

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---------I sit with Zoe at our small square kitchen table. We're eating ice cream, vanilla to be specific ( Read more... )

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For the longest time, I'm not sure what to say. I don't know how to react, and I feel awfully inadequate. What do you do when your friend tells you he was, no joke, ( Read more... )

All women who defied the Rules wore the Silencer. They were supposedly simple Rules, too. Celia Burke didn't think so. “Always agree with your man, no matter what you think.” That's the Rule that had gotten Celia fitted with a Silencer. It wasn't her fault the authorities had heard her argument with her husband Nathaniel.

( Proudly, he had declared, Women should be available for sex whenever their husbands want it. )