21 Erased

"21 Erased" - A Dystopian Novella EDITED: November 2013 (22,000 words) A friendly conversation in which Sarah revealed that she was not blind to the unfair system will show her that there is no safety for those who see. The codes on people's hands serve as identification, bank account, credit card, medical insurance; they are used to open doors, to pay for groceries… The code is everything. The code is life. Without the code you don't exist. The system that tracks you, that owns you through your code--in one single day it brutally takes it all away. You don't exist; you were erased; alive but as good as dead.