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never grow old
If you had the chance to give your child a life free from death and disease, but it meant you would never get to see her again, would you do it?
'never grow old' is a science fiction novelette written in the form of letters from a family desperately missing the child they gave away, a family not wanting to admit that perhaps they made a mistake.
It is a dystopian tale and a story about the decisions that societies and families make when trying to conquer the diseases that still plague us.
'never grow old' is a science fiction novelette written in the form of letters from a family desperately missing the child they gave away, a family not wanting to admit that perhaps they made a mistake.
It is a dystopian tale and a story about the decisions that societies and families make when trying to conquer the diseases that still plague us.
53 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 23, 2017
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December 27, 2017
I picked this up as a Kindle freebie the other day, intrigued by the cover and the title, and hoping the story contents would match the packaging.
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"never grow old" is a short story set in a near future America, about genetic experimentation and government control and one family's rebellion. A twin baby girl is given to the government on the promise that she will be given a treatment to never get sick and never grow old. Each year, one letter by one family member will be delivered to the little girl. The story is told through these series of letters from various family. The letters reveal an increasingly dystopian world in a clever way. Nicely done, and kudos to the author.
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"never grow old" is a short story set in a near future America, about genetic experimentation and government control and one family's rebellion. A twin baby girl is given to the government on the promise that she will be given a treatment to never get sick and never grow old. Each year, one letter by one family member will be delivered to the little girl. The story is told through these series of letters from various family. The letters reveal an increasingly dystopian world in a clever way. Nicely done, and kudos to the author.
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