EVERMORE

By Michael Smith

Georgia Jack, a sixth-grade student, is shocked when her new Instructor Francine Boutoille speaks to her face to face, grades her papers, and interacts with her outside earshot of the five Aides. A subversive dystopian satire, like ANIMAL FARM, for a modern age. "In the center of a sterile, windowless room, a steel cylinder--roughly the size of a teenage human--rocked slowly back and forth. The cylinder had been estimably designed, polished into mirror, and equipped with the latest safety features and gadgetry. The cylinder was warm and suspended in the air, like a cradle, by its vast supporting structure. From within the pores in the cylinder's lid, the gentle breathing of a twelve-year-old girl was audible. As the digital clock on the wall switched to four sixty-six in the morning, a whirr of motors underneath the cylinder started, tilting the metal cradle more sharply from side to side like a boat rocking on the ocean. After a few minutes, at four seventy o'clock, the lid of the cylinder slid open, and ten bright overhead lights illuminated, accompanied by the unremitting sound of an electric harp. The symphony of motor, harp, and light continued for a time. Eventually, from the top of the cylinder, one arm appeared, then another, and finally the entire body of Georgia Jack emerged. She was awake."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1797901028
• ISBN13: 9781797901022
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"