Dancy waits… Sometimes, she waits all night. Rain or snow, she sits atop the city, watching for him. For Never Man. Some nights, he doesn’t show. Other nights… Five years ago, Dancy was rescued by Never Man. He didn’t say why. He didn’t say much of anything. But since then, she’s lived every day in the hope of meeting him again, of understanding him and the choice he made. A mystery in a city filled with rules. Like the ones that make her relationship with Mina illegal, yet allow the Dark Net to flourish, or the one that turned her illegal hacking into one of the highest paid jobs in London. Right now, the Dark Net is filled with conspiracy theories about something called the Cleansing. Dancy’s too busy planning a holiday to worry about silly things like that, but her dream is about to come true and, when it does, the Cleansing will no longer seem like a crazy theory… The City Electric welcomes you into a world where the line between super hero and villain is blurred, a world similar to our own, yet subtly different, a world in which you need to choose your questions carefully, because you might not like the answers…
Michael Cairns is a science fiction, horror and fantasy author, teacher and musician. He was born at a young age and could write even before he could play the drums, but that was long ago, in the glory days – when he actually had hair.
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Michael loves pineapple, chocolate, playing gigs (though not right now, obviously. Because lockdown) and outwitting his young daughter (the scores are about level but she’s getting smarter every day).
Michael is currently working hard on writing, getting enough sleep and keeping his hair. The first is going well, the other two…not so much.