A novel of technology, economics, and death in the age of the surveillance state.
What price freedom when government knows all our secrets?
Fawn got to the shelter too late for dinner, so she curled her small family into a dark corner, hoping only for a safe place to sleep. But instead, a quiet stranger approached her out of the darkness with a gift.
Now she had a way out of her poverty. A ticket to a new world, one filled with opportunity.
And danger.
Dare she use it?
Welcome, Fawn, to a place beyond the reach of any government, without laws or regulations of any kind.
Where everyone is free.
But no one is safe.
Welcome to the New Badlands.
This is the story of a young mother's attempt to survive in a new digital underworld. Follow her as she becomes a pioneer, a smuggler, a spy, and a freedom-fighter while dodging forces that threaten to destroy the very foundations of the modern nation-state.
The characters in this novel are fictional. But the technology is real. So is the place. It's growing around you, right now. Like cracks in the armor of the surveillance state.
Read about it while you still can.
Warning: Three pages of this work contain graphic depictions of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. Use caution when distributing this work to anyone under the age of 18.

Thieves Emporium (The New Badlands)

Literature & Fiction

Hernandez, Max

Genre Fiction

New Badlands Publishing

A collection of stories from a group of writers in Hixson, TN. The group is composed of writers very different styles and genres, in age, experience, political outlook, and their stance on the Oxford comma. They conspired to create this eclectic collection of short stories. Their hope is that you find an author whose style you like, who stirs your emotion with a phrase, who plants a story in your mind that you remember long after you've put the book aside. They also decided that the profits from their collection of stories would go to support a regional arts or writing program. The profits from sales of the first edition will go to the Young Southern Student Writers sponsored by the Southern Lit Alliance and UTC's Department of English to help offset the cost of the awards ceremony they hold each year.

Crazy Buffet Club: A Collection of Stories

Riley, Kelle Z.

Beam, Calvin

Kirkland, J. Smith

David, Elijah

Sedlacek, Gary

Sculley, Peter

Hixson, Jonathan

Adams, Blaire

Literary

Independently published

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