Assimilation

by Jeff Haws

There is no escape when they come for you.

For years, society has limped along, progressing and living life with a plague in their midst: 1 in every 5 teenagers will wake up one morning between 15 and 17 years old, wanting to kill everyone they can—their family included. Brains turned to mush, they have to be locked away and put down, their young lives stripped away.

The Morgans are feeling the pressure, terrified of what might happen to their 17-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son each night they go to sleep, but still trying to live their lives like everyone else.

One morning, though, everything changes. When the safety measures people had put in place to keep the monsters at bay fall apart, they watch helplessly what happens when the fragile nature of our society is starkly revealed. And everyone seeks their own measure of escape, wherever that may lead them.

Kindle Edition

Published November 12, 2021

About the author

Jeff Haws is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald, Arizona Republic, New Orleans Times-Picayune, and many other publications. His dystopian suspense trilogy "The Alessandra Chronicles," along with standalone novels "The Little Tragedy," "Assimilation" and "Killing the Immortals" are available in print and digital at Amazon. He also has a novella, "Tomorrow's News Today," and a short story called "The Slingshot" on Amazon Kindle. He lives in Atlanta.

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