Honoris Virilis Respectu: Security Directorate
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In the heart of the Security Directorate, corruption festers, and political machinations rule.
Major General John Simm, Propaganda Bureau Director, shapes reality with his words.
His assistant hospitalised by a workplace accident. Her replacement so inept he suspects intention.
But is she the target, or was he? Can he get to the bottom of it before they try again?
Dare to step into the darkness of a dystopian urban fantasy like no other.
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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Honoris Virilis Respectu - Alexandria Blaelock
HONORIS VIRILIS RESPECTU
Major General John Simm stood at his office window looking down and out over the City.
It was a beautiful day; the sun was shining, and the glass radiated a slight warmth back to him.
Were he a fanciful man who believed in a beneficent universe, he might have believed the small touch of warmth on his face, against the air-conditioned chill at his back was a small blessing.
Or perhaps a token of gratitude for his efforts.
But he was a Security Directorate Officer.
A Eugenics Programme success, he’d passed the Genomics Bureau post-natal testing, survived the State Academy of Cultural Regulation with a useful genetic superpower
and graduated with Honours from the University of Civilisation.
Into a career he’d more or less been bred and trained for.
Out in the City, people the size of ants walked the streets in their shirt sleeves. Uniform jackets cast aside or held by a crooked finger over the shoulder, and uniform caps set at jaunty angles on heads.
It seemed joy strolled the streets with the citizens.
Something in the sunshine gave them the hope