Love in the Security Directorate: A Short Story

By Alexandria Blaelock

She can take him or she can take him.
The Security Directorate controls your birth, education, marriage and sometimes your death.
Captain Seraphina Robinson is about to marry a man she barely knows. Not that it matters.
The eugenics programme matters more.
She has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BlueMere Books
• Release date: Aug 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781925749212

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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LOVE IN THE SECURITY DIRECTORATE

CAPTAIN SERAPHINA ROBINSON forced herself to take a power stance; spine straight, feet slightly spread, hands lightly clasped behind her back as she coolly observed her husband to be.

She knew of Major Callan Muir of course, they’d met at the University of Civilisation.

Technically the University was open to all citizens.

But everyone knew it was only for those who survived the State Academy of Cultural Regulation and were destined for high positions within the Protection Squadron.

And to get into the Academy, you needed a Genomics Bureau classification proving you had a certain kind of genetic ability. The kind known colloquially as a superpower.

Ideally achieved through the Directorate eugenics programme.

She’d admired his quiet stillness and was fascinated by his deep, resonant and commanding voice. Perhaps that was his superpower, though you never spoke of those.

He was very popular, always the centre of a group of sycophantic women.

Rumour had it he’d ended more than one promising career with unsanctioned intimate relationships.

She knew her career would end soon enough, but she’d wanted to make the best of