AN AGENTS GUIDE TO PURE RED YA ECO SCIENCE FICTION 82000 Words By Rachel Blaine
THE PITCH Sixteen-year-old Candy has been hiding her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now scientists want her for the one thing she can't hide, her skin color. After a new discovery is made public that only those with pure red skin can survive another onset of catastrophie climate change, Candy, a pure red, embarks on a journey to find her birth parents hoping they can help her understand how to better control her ability so she can stay a girl and avoid spending her adolescence as a science experiment.
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THE EXCERPT • My hands squeeze my temples as I focus all my energy on my bowl of dried crickets. If I could resurrect them, could they write this pointless essay for me? They'd likely mock me with their nonexistent knowledge of what it's like to be a pure red girl. Useless writing partners. I guess I'll have to write this essay myself for the sixth year in a row. • My pencil lingers over my notes as I contemplate how to answer the same ridiculous prompt we get each year to pay tribute to The Great Coloring. Why Is Your Skin Color Special? I had a teacher once who swore he came up with the essay topic himself. I may have blurted out that it so obviously came from the Dome's unmistakable ducation agenda which caused him to punish me with one week of lunchtime alone in his classroom. Little did he know, I've spent ninety-five percent of my school lunches sitting alone. Joke's on him.
“My hands squeeze my temples as I focus all my energy on my bowl of dried crickets. If I could resurrect them, could they write this pointless essay for me? They'd likely mock me with their nonexistent knowledge of what it's like to be a pure red girl. Useless writing partners.”
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