Family Business: Recycle

By Corinne Lewandowski

Squib spends a lot of time in the Line-for-Basics. Ill and scrabbling for more resources beyond what they could earn this week, Squib has to find a better way. A lot of ways exist to get ahead living in The Towers. It beats the harder scrabble for a safe place to live outside the protected dome. The high ranking citizens of The Towers have figured it out. Time for Squib to crack the code and get something better.

 

What would you give up for something you need in a resource scarce society? 

 

Family Business is a stand alone dystopian story about the character of Squib from Corinne Lewandowski's upcoming Recycle Series. It's a prequel / origin story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Corinne Lewandowski
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393662105

Corinne Lewandowski

Corinne lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, a place rife with tales of pirates in every nook and cranny. She lives in Lower Sackville with her wife and two cats, who are frequently nicknamed “Little Pirate”. She has two recent SF short stories published. One each in Dystopia From The Rock and Pulp Sci-Fi from The Rock. In addition to writing, Corinne enjoys dabbling in many things, including board games, video games, and cooking. Flash fiction is another way she can dabble into something a little different.

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Second Publishing

by Corinne Lewandowski, December 2020.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

FAMILY BUSINESS First printed in Dystopia From The Rock (Engen Books) 2019

Second Edition, December 2020.

Copyright © 2020 Corinne Lewandowski. Written by Corinne Lewandowski.

Cover Design by Peter J. Foote

Corinne Lewandowski. Family Business (Recycle Series)

FAMILY BUSINESS

by

Corinne K. Lewandowski

SQUIB HELD THE TOWERS’ citizenship card in a death grip for the last two hours.

The Line-for-Basics was long today with so many people suffering from the flu. Typical. One clerk at the counter.

Every citizen had to register work and mandatory community service hours on their cards. In exchange, citizens received basic resource credits for nutritional food, clean recycled water, and health services.

The Towers had the most generous basic resources in the region.

Squib had run out of flu medication and all credits two days ago. The Line-for-Basics shuffled forward as another family was processed.

The mandatory flu shot Squib had taken worked. Squib was not dead. Just felt like it.

The line shuffled.

Squib switched which hand held the precious citizenship card.

The outbreak was the worst in years. Many were bedridden for weeks, losing hard-earned credits from missed community and work shifts.

Squib heard of some dropping hundreds of ranks.

Worse still, some with compromised immune systems died. Their bodies and tithe of resources sent to Recycle-For-Life for community