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    Life in the Security Directorate: A Short Story
    Life in the Security Directorate: A Short Story
    Life in the Security Directorate: A Short Story
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    Life in the Security Directorate: A Short Story

    By Alexandria Blaelock

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    She wants to blend in but she's trained to stand out.

    A dark dingy office. With broken furniture.
    Genetic anomaly Eve needs black Earl Grey tea with a thin slice of lemon. In a vintage, rose-patterned bone china cup and saucer.
    And when she needs something, she always gets it.
    One way or another.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlueMere Books
    Release dateJul 22, 2020
    ISBN9781925749175
    Life in the Security Directorate: A Short Story
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    Alexandria Blaelock

    Alexandria Blaelock writes stories, some of them for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. She's also written four self-help books applying business techniques to personal matters like getting dressed, cleaning house, and feeding your friends. As a recovering Project Manager, she’s probably too fond of sticking to plan. She lives in a forest because she enjoys birdsong, the scent of gum leaves and the sun on her face. When not telecommuting to parallel universes from her Melbourne based imagination, she watches K-dramas, talks to animals, and drinks Campari. At the same time. Discover more at www.alexandriablaelock.com.

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      Life in the Security Directorate - Alexandria Blaelock

      LIFE IN THE SECURITY DIRECTORATE

      EVE CLOSED HER EYES and leaned her forehead against the stationery cupboard door. Most of her days were pretty shitty, but for some reason, this one was shittier than most.

      Maybe not the shittiest day of her life, that was probably the day she’d been born.

      After she passed the Genomics Bureau postnatal testing, her parents had quickly signed her and all her rights over to the State. She was remanded to the State Academy of Cultural Regulation while her parents tried to live down the shame of producing what was colloquially known as a superhero.

      She took a deep calming breath.

      What was it she needed right now?

      Black Earl Grey tea with a thin slice of lemon. And a lemon shortbread biscuit to go with it. In a nice vintage, rose-patterned bone china cup and saucer.

      She pulled the cupboard door open, and there it was, steaming gently on top of a stack of notebooks.

      She smoothed a few stray mouse-brown loose hairs back into her long ponytail and took her tea back to her desk.

      Kicking off her sensible shoes, she pulled open the bottom drawer of her broken pedestal unit, pulled out a small cushion which she placed on

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