Broken Fate
by Jennifer Derrick
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Publication date: April 18th 2016
Genres: Mythology, Romance, Young Adult
A TROPOS HAS ONE JOB. KILL EVERY HUMAN
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Zeus gave her one simple job:
Kill every human. Atropos—daughter of Zeus and the third goddess of Fate from
Greek mythology —spends her eternal life snipping human lifelines when their
mortal lives are over. As if being a killer doesn’t make life miserable enough,
she and her Fate-wielding sisters must live amongst the humans on Earth thanks
to a long-running feud between their mother and Zeus. Living on Earth means
they must mingle with the mortals, attend the local high school, and attempt to
fit in—or at least not stand out too much.
Killing and mingling don’t mix,
which is why Atropos’ number-one rule is to avoid all relationships with the
humans. Caring for the people she has to kill is a fast track to insanity.
However, when Alex Morgan walks into her first-period English class, she knows
she’s in for trouble. He’s the worst kind of human for her to like—one with a
rapidly approaching expiration date. And he makes Atropos want to break all the
rules.
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I turn off my desk lamp and
computer, starting to get up, but then sit back down. My curiosity about Alex
has been building all day. I’ve tried to tamp it down, to forget him, but I
can’t. Even Chloe’s chatter couldn’t take him out of my thoughts. I boot the
computer back up and give in to temptation.
I search
for Alex’s record in our database. What I’m doing isn’t forbidden, but I rarely
bother to check on the humans once I assign their manner of death. I forget
them until I see them again on their date of death. However, tonight, I want to
see what kind of fate Lacey devised for him and refresh my memory about how and
when he’ll die.
I find
his file but just as I’m about to double click and open it, I pull back. Do I
really want to know what Lacey has planned for him? He’s already faced grief
and loss. What if his fate gets worse than that? Do I want that knowledge?
I think
for a few moments and decide it doesn’t really matter either way. He and I
aren’t going to become friends. I enjoyed our afternoon together, but that has
to be the end of it. If his fate is bad, I can live with it. He is, after all,
just another human. Easy come, easy go.
I double
click on the file. His entire past and future lies before me. I scroll down to
the end of the document, looking for the relevant part, the date of death. I
don’t have to scroll far.
May
fifteenth of this year.
I read
the page again. The date doesn’t change. May fifteenth is a little less than
two months from now. I quickly scroll back up, looking for the details on how
he will die. I’m furious when I find them.
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Author Info
Jennifer is a freelance writer
and novelist. As a freelancer, she writes everything from technical manuals to
articles on personal finance and European-style board games. Her interest in
storytelling began when she was six and her parents gave her a typewriter for
Christmas and agreed to pay her $.01 per page for any stories she churned out.
Such a loose payment system naturally led to a lot of story padding. Broken
Fate, her first novel, earned her $2.80 from her parents.
Jennifer lives in North Carolina
and, when not writing, can often be found reading, trawling the shelves at the
library, playing board games, watching sports, camping, running marathons, and
playing with her dog. You can visit her at her official
website:www.JenniferDerrick.com.
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