Rejuvention Denied, From Hearth and Sand #WeWriWa #snippetsunday #SnipSun

 

 

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In honor of Military Appreciation Month, an excerpt from "Live Or Surrender to Technology," a short story in the multi-genre anthology, Hearth and Sand. In a near future, a man’s journey to escape his future, reawakens his urge to live. The inspiration for the story was a dedication to my father on his final flight west.

 Excerpt:

The crowd on the moving walkway shrank away from the lean figure in the dark blue uniform. Although there were no outward symptoms, it was as if they knew he had within him a contagion from another planet. Staring at the crumpled message flimsy in his hand, John Chippi saw the words without really comprehending them. Riding without conscious thought, automatically switching between speed rails, he found himself on a small transfer platform. He felt alone, despite the press of riders around him. Once again, he straightened out the flimsy. This time the smeared words penetrated his mental fog. A glance skipped over the innocuous opening, “Sorry to inform you,” but his hands shook again as the official red stamp, “Rejuvenation treatments—Denied,” glared off the page.

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Hearth and Sand: Stories from the Front Lines and the Homefront

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