Blurb:
7
stolen organs.
1
vengeful victim.
A
gruesome sci-fi thriller.
Organ scrubbing was a bloody job, but somebody had
to do it. Daniel, an orphan from the Gutter, was put to work scrubbing kidneys
at aged twelve. The job had its perks: a warm bed, Law and Order reruns, and an all-you-can-eat Mopane worm
buffet.
Until the Orphanage stole Daniel’s parts, and sold
them on the organ market.
Now Daniel has grown up, and yearns to become
whole again. The cybernetic organ replacements just aren’t the same – he needs
his parts back. But the new owners of his organs won’t give them up. Not
without a fight.
Just how far will Daniel go to regain his missing
pieces? And how much more of himself will he lose along the way?
Defragmenting
Daniel is a cyberpunk crime
thriller that will unnerve you. Every part of you.
“A work of great imagination. Powerful and
gripping.”
“A stark and moving experience.”
– ReadersFavorite.com, 5 Star Review
Excerpt:
The
sun beat down on the crown of Daniel’s mop of thick, black hair. The hanging
smoke in the air thickened. His left eye cried. His lungs protested, spasming
as he penetrated deeper into the warzone. About a hundred yards into New
Settlers Ways, the sweet stink of burning flesh competed with the smoke. Daniel
remembered that smell from the operating theatre, when they’d removed his
amygdala. But it was stronger here. Omnidirectional. As though the entire area
were a seeping wound, and the sun its surgeon.
Daniel
tried to count. To find sevens in the chaos. But the buildings weren’t in rows
or columns. There was no order here.
We
had you cleaned
We
had you eat
He
rubbed his eye. Tried to bury the memory of the song.
We
love your toes
We
love your meat
Odin
crawled out of the rucksack and perched on Daniel’s shoulder. They surveyed the
destruction together. Daniel could hardly feel the cat’s claws burrowing into
his clavicle.
“No
good,” said Daniel, echoing the old shopkeeper.
He
walked over to one of the mounds of rubble. Heat radiating from the stones
baked his cheeks.
Odin
meowed. Dug his claws deeper into Daniel’s chest.
“What
do you want here?” called out a voice.
Odin
darted into the satchel as Daniel whirled around. His cybernetic knee grinded
with the sudden turn.
“You
have no business here,” said a man. He wore a holey t-shirt and a week-long
beard. His eyes were swollen. Frantic.
“I’m
looking for Porcu–”
“We
don’t need your help,” hissed the Holey Man.
“I’m
not here to help. I’m looking for Porcuperry Road.”
“You
PeoPle …” The man spat his P’s “… from up north think you better than us. What
with your implanted parts and such.” He nosed the air in the general direction
of Daniel’s cybernetic knee.
“Sir,
I mean no disrespect, but I don’t like my knee. I’d rather have my original.”
The
filthy man’s eyes snapped back to Daniel’s face. “What’s that you say?”
“The
Orphanage took my parts to pay my debt. I never wanted the replacements they
gave me.” Daniel flexed his leg. The joint wheezed as he lowered it slowly to
the earth.
“Hmmm.”
The Holey Man stroked his grizzled chin. He had a gash along the bottom of his
arm. Were those maggots wiggling along the edges? The man needed a good scrub
of Rejek.
“What
was it you’re looking for?” asked the Holey Man.
“84
Porcuperry Road.”
“Porcuperry
was … fi-si-seven blocks down.”
Daniel’s
heart quickened. He eyed the broken streets. Doubted he’d be able to make out
city blocks in this mess.
The
man sighed. “I’ll take you.” He turned on his feet and walked off, not waiting
to see if Daniel followed.
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The
Organ Scrubber is the first fragment of the Defragmenting Daniel trilogy:
Fragment
1 – The Organ Scrubber
Fragment
2 – The Face in a Jar
Fragment
3 – The Boy Without a Heart
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