Shadow Children

Third Person

Fiction

28

Nina Idi - a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children - has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Angry and confused, Nina knows only one thing for sure: she is innocent of the charges. But now she is forced with the most difficult decision of her life: get three prisoners to admit they are shadow children and be spared herself, or refuse to cooperate and be killed.
The options are clear. The choice, Nina discovers, is not...

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