In the year 2070 in a California valley, the earth appears barren, and people have deserted the land to go east, all except David’s family. David, in his brief life has experienced everything imaginable, including eating insects and worms to tame his never-ending hunger. With the disappearance of animals, vegetation, and clean water, the only well in California which produced drinking water, is dry. David’s father makes the decision to travel to the east, where the government promises an abundance of food and water. What the United States government didn’t tell the people was, that three thousand miles on foot, with no food and no water is a death march. When David and his family leave their only shelter to search for water, they hope a map holds the secret to finding the well which is thought to contain water and life. On their search for the well, they will embark on a journey of despair, revelation, and a series of misfortunes that will test David’s will to live.

In a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected silence threatens to unravel the very fabric of society. Speth Jime is anxious to deliver her Last Day speech and celebrate her transition into adulthood. The moment she turns fifteen, Speth must pay for every word she speaks (“Sorry” is a flat ten dollars and a legal admission of guilt), for every nod ($0.99/sec), for every scream ($0.99/sec) and even every gesture of affection. She’s been raised to know the consequences of falling into debt, and can’t begin to imagine the pain of having her eyes shocked for speaking words that she’s unable to afford. But when Speth’s friend Beecher commits suicide rather than work off his family’s crippling debt, she can’t express her shock and dismay without breaking her Last Day contract and sending her family into Collection. Backed into a corner, Speth finds a loophole: rather than read her speech—rather than say anything at all—she closes her mouth and vows never to speak again. Speth’s unexpected defiance of tradition sparks a media frenzy, inspiring others to follow in her footsteps, and threatens to destroy her, her family and the entire city around them.

David's endless trek on the road to salvation has brought him only grief and unending nightmares. He reaches a milestone in his life when he becomes a man on his journey to find the well. Before he can recover from one tormenting loss after another, he will have to face more devastation and loss before his journey comes to an end. The future looks bleak for David who has witnessed the loss of his entire family. The constant search for food and water leaves him broken and questioning his will to go on. Will David give up and accept that he will not make it out of this horror? What is waiting for him at the end of this endless search for the well? key words young adult, free 1st in series, young adult, young adult, young adult freebie, action and adventure young adult, young adult, teens, free horror, juvenile horror short story, futuristic story, futuristic story, horror, horror, dystopian short story, science fiction, science fiction, young adult short story, young adult futuristic story, juvenile short stories, juvenile short stories, young adult futuristic dystopian story, juvenile dystopian horror short stories, science fiction, dystopian, action and adventure in the future. Action and adventure, apocalyptic world teen age horror stories, dystopian future, dystopian future, dystopian future, dystopian science fiction dystopian world, juvenile fiction, teen action and adventure. Fiction post apocalyptic adventure.

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Alien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station—only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures. Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything. As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. As a junior guard, she’s excited to prove herself to her company—and that means sacrificing anything that won’t propel her forward. But then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners. At first, she’s confident her commanding officer—who also happens to be her mother—will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely. As Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn’t realize there’s a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive—all while beginning to suspect there’s a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows.

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