Dear Agent (to be personalized),

All of Mercy’s ‘mercy’ burned off years ago.

Caring for clones born of the last longevity fad isn’t how she expected to enter her forties, but only Theta will let her live in the derelict tank abandoned on the premises and far from the city. Cities are targets for bombs. For cybernetic obsessions. For people who’ve forgotten how AI once rained fire on their lives and ruined the climate it promised to fix.

Working at Theta is as good as it gets, but now one of Mercy’s patients thinks jeopardizing her livelihood is a game. Mercy can’t live in a city again, surrounded by the memories of her war-orphaned childhood and the AI who caused it. She won’t.

When Mercy loses the job she needs so desperately, she must decide whether getting revenge on the facility is more important than the children trapped within.

Meanwhile, eleven-year-old Ash enjoys a narrow world of routine: play, pills, and the next operation to maintain his crumbling body.

Raised within Theta with other ailing children like himself, he doesn’t have long to live. At least he has his nurse, Mercy, who seems to love him like a mother.

During the isolation period before an operation to save his eyes, a girl named Violet plays with him when the nurses are away. There are only boys at Theta, but Violet promises a whole wing of other girls to meet when he gets out of surgery. However, when he wakes, she isn’t there. Mercy says it was all his imagination, but the name-tag on his new blanket says otherwise.

Now Ash must scour Theta for his long lost friend, battling his body’s limitations and the watchful eyes of staff and security devices alike, before he loses the chance to reunite with her forever.

Sick House is a 99k dystopian sci-fi made for fans of Climate of Chaos by Cassandra Newbould, We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard, and works by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I’ve attended the San Francisco Writer’s Conference and work as an occupational therapist with both children and the elderly in a variety of healthcare settings.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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