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A City Without Birds

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Summary

Memories can’t be trusted in Seranid. Feisty Terry Silver learns the hard way when she’s forced to flee the utopian City of her childhood, charged with a crime she has no recollection of committing. After the mysterious Professor Camus Remin whisks her into the Slums, she finds stolen memories, a people trampled by innovation, and a decades-old Resistance that embraces her like family. In this country of half-truths and division, Terry faces more than her own mortality: resurfacing trauma, the looming threat of an all-out nuclear war, and the hopes of a people who call her the Phoenix that will herald the nation’s rebirth.

Status
Complete
Chapters
4
Rating
5.0 1 review
Age Rating
13+

Prologue: Storm

I still remember my father’s death. It was my only clear memory of him. Seeing his body draped across the hospital bed. His neck punctured by a needle. His eyes shut like he was sleeping, hands cold and numb.

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I remember my mother kneeling, clasping his lifeless hand, weeping as a man in a crisp suit explained in words as shiny as his polished leather shoes. My father was working when he collapsed, struck by an incurable heart disease. It claimed him before he reached the hospital.

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I still remember the man’s name. Pince. Head of consumables. He led the Council, the coalition of Seranid’s business heads. It was he who carried my father to the hospital. He who comforted my mother as she sobbed.

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I wondered why he cared so much.

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I still remember the other man in that stark, sterile room. The one with wild silver hair who squeezed my hand and whispered, “You’ll be seeing me very soon.” When my four-year-old gaze met his, I glimpsed a storm behind his eyes, threatening to wash away all the colors in the world.

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Then he slipped away.

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Years later, he saved my life. I set out to finish what my father began.

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