Defection: A Short Dystopia
By Keyla Damaer
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A history professor teaches the regime propaganda to protect her family, but her world crumbles when a mysterious visitor arrives at her doorstep. Faced with a life-threatening choice, she must succumb to the regime’s oppression or join the visitor in the fight for freedom. Will she risk everything in the name of freedom?
Join Rotima in her fight for freedom.
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Defection - Keyla Damaer
DEFECTION
by Keyla Damaer
https://keyladamaer.com
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or a used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living, dead, or otherwise, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. I really mean this. Totally not you.
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I write in British English. Colour and leant aren’t typos. It’s the funny way Brits spell the words.
That said, even if several set of eyes looked for errors (aka horrors), and despite the great professional editing by Kerry Murphy, you may still find typos.
Some kind souls have reached out to me to warn me about them, and I promptly corrected them. You can do the same here: https://keyladamaer.com/report-an-error
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This story is part of the Tales from the Sehnsucht Series.
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Rotima
Defection
Manderian year 2468
At the end of the last class of the day, Rotima gathered her tablets and sat down at her desk. The silence of the empty classroom closed in a suffocating embrace as she set to write the lecture for the following day—a long dissertation on the glory of the Halden. As an Institute of Art’s history teacher in the capital of the Halden, she detested every word—and herself—for brainwashing another generation of young Manderians. Still, those words she despised kept her family alive.
Her stomach grumbled, a reminder of the Halden’s policy towards the families of unworthy Manderians: no meal breaks for them. The contract didn’t include accommodation in the dorms, either. There’s no room, was the official excuse. The truth was, her husband Draken Kosset, fell under the label of an unworthy citizen after being dismissed from the army twelve years before.
She stuffed the tablets into her bag and headed home, resisting the temptation to steal some fruit from the mess hall for Draken and their ten-year-old