Two teen scribes and their writing mom make up a novel family
The United States’ Office of Stability raids an outlaw concert.
The guns and chaos fail to silence a defiant singer passionately
crooning Bright Eyes’ “I Must Belong Somewhere.” The concert is a
violation of the America’s ban on emotion, an attempt to end violent
crime. A bullet silences what fear cannot, leading the heroine to fight
against the government’s suppression of what makes us human.
This alternate world is from 16-year-old Nathan Goldman. Goldman, a
Shawnee Mission East High School junior and aspiring science-fiction
and fantasy writer, penned this repressed world as his third crack at
