For Blood

By Eve Fisher

If people could live forever, how would they spend their time? Science, study, pleasure, games? All of the above? And how about those who don’t want it—or can’t have it? In “For Blood,” those who have rejected—or been rejected by—the Medprots (Medical Protection Devices) live in separate communities. There, dying has become a fundraiser, a spectator sport...and a temptation to murder!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Apr 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781479465996

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FOR BLOOD by Eve Fisher

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Copyright © 2022 by Eve Fisher.

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FOR BLOOD

by Eve Fisher

Vera walked into the sally port and locked the outside doors behind her. Bauer was looking at the video feed of visitors leaving the public chapel.

One hundred eighty-nine, he said. And none of them ever shut up.

They did when Mother Colonna prayed that they might all depart in peace, Vera replied with a twisted grin.

Why do they even come? Bauer asked. Why don’t they just stay home and hook in? Virtual’s the same as being here. What’s the point?

Well, there’s always the hope that something special will happen that only they will see, Vera said. Maybe we’ll let them into the hospice room. Maybe we’ll start screaming. Run amok and start killing each other with scalpels.

Bauer tensed, and Vera could have kicked herself. He was new, still in shock from his Medprot rejection, still far from being adjusted enough to determine if he would make a good community member. Or