The warden went a brick red color and went through all my things twice, even shaking my bag, throwing it to the floor and stamping all over it, and then hand-searching me from head to toe. I gritted my teeth and endured.
She didn’t find my nonexistent phone, and going—impossibly—an even darker red, she snarled, “Well, get that stuff put away, you stupid brats!”
Packing everything up as quickly as we could, we followed a card-wielding guard up another level and were ushered into the second doorway of an identical corridor. We found ourselves in a long room with a small window at one end, five bunk beds built in along each cinder block wall. Tables and chairs filled most of the center space and there were quite a lot of girls already in there. Salperton was one of the most distant schools in the Facility’s catchment area.
“Find your beds.” The warden had followed us up, snorting and puffing in a mixture of unfitness and continuing—permanent?—rage. “Your genetic details should be displayed. During an inspection, you will stand beside your detail card, understood?”
Harriet, Caroline, and I nodded. I found Sarah’s bed quickly, my own not much further along. Sarah had a lower bunk, good. I had an upper one, perhaps more private, good again.
The detail cards were displayed at one end for the top bunk and the other end for the lower one. Mine said:
Number: 1764584 (Margaret Verrall)
Tissue Type: XA4b
Genetic Group: C19B
Blood Group: O+
Apparently that was all anyone now needed to know about me.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
There are lots of people I would like to thank for their help with this book, so here goes. Firstly I’d like to thank my parents for all their support, and my mum for her ruthlessly honest critiques!
I’d like to thank Victoria S., Theresa Linden and my agent Amanda Preston for all their excellent editorial input.
And I’d like to thank the incredibly talented Katy Jones for painting the most gorgeous cover artwork!
Thanks to all who supported the Kindle Scout campaign!
I’d also like to thank all the old Authonomy crowd who gave so much help, support and feedback, back in the day.
And not forgetting the patrons of the book, St Alban and St Serapion!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Corinna Turner has been writing since she was fourteen and likes strong protagonists with plenty of integrity. She has an MA in English from Oxford University, but has foolishly gone on to work with both children and animals! Juggling work with the disabled and being a midwife to sheep, she spends as much time as she can in a little hut at the bottom of the garden, writing.
She is a Catholic Christian with roots in the Methodist and Anglican churches. A keen cinema-goer, she lives in the UK. She used to have a Giant Snail called Peter with a 6½” long shell, but now makes do with a cactus and a campervan!
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Boring Legal Bit
Copyright © 2018 Corinna Turner
First published by UnSeen Books* in 2018
The right of Corinna Turner to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the copyright owner or, in the case of reprographic production, only in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, and may not be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Cover Artwork by Katy Jones
www.KatyJones.co.uk
Cover design by Corinna Turner
ISBN: 978-1-910806-41-8 (eBook)
Also available as a Paperback: ISBN 978-1-910806-40-1
This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, incidents and dialogues in this publication are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual locales, events or people, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
* An imprint of Zephyr Publishing, UK—Corinna Turner, T/A
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