Flatlander (2014)
“We’d needed the rest—at first. But these last few mornings the silence had had an edgy quality. We waved at each other on our paths to our respective desks, but our heads were elsewhere. Some of us had a restless look. Others were visibly, determinedly busy.
Nobody wanted to join a mother hunt.
This past year we’d managed to cut deep into the organlegging activities in the West Coast area. Pats on the back all around, but the results were predictable: other activities were going to incr...ease. Sooner or later the newspapers would start screaming about stricter enforcement of the Fertility Laws, and then we’d all be out hunting down illegitimate parents…all of us who were not involved in something else.
It was high time I got involved in something else.
This morning I walked to my office through the usual edgy silence. I ran coffee, carried it to my desk, punched for messages at the computer terminal.MoreLess
Nobody wanted to join a mother hunt.
This past year we’d managed to cut deep into the organlegging activities in the West Coast area. Pats on the back all around, but the results were predictable: other activities were going to incr...ease. Sooner or later the newspapers would start screaming about stricter enforcement of the Fertility Laws, and then we’d all be out hunting down illegitimate parents…all of us who were not involved in something else.
It was high time I got involved in something else.
This morning I walked to my office through the usual edgy silence. I ran coffee, carried it to my desk, punched for messages at the computer terminal.MoreLess
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