Almost Everyone [Collection]

Asha has always been sick and now she's dying, but she has the choice to live at the cost of everything she knows to break the conspiracy keeping everyone indentured.

This is the collection for the short story titled "Almost Everyone", a medical science-fiction dystopia set in the future, written by Anike Kirsten.

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• Part 1 - The Beginning

Asha is approached by a strange woman and the seeds of doubt regarding her illness, and that of everyone else, have been planted.

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• Part 2 - Awakening

Asha discovers something old. Secrets about to be shed and cast into the open. She still doesn't know who, if anyone, she can trust.

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• Part 3 - Suspicions Abound

Asha is apparently the main asset of a plot and she's not sure that's a good thing. Dr. Mercy just doesn't know when to quit.

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• Part 4 - Convictions

Asha finally takes the plunge to escape her manufactured fate. But she'll lose it all in the attempt.

^{Anike Kirsten lives in the dead centre of South Africa with her spawns and spouse, cat, and spiders. She is an amateur scientist and artist who also enjoys exploring the possibilities, as well as the improbabilities, within her stories. Fragments of her imagination have been scattered across to Nature: Futures, Avescope, and other fine publications.}

• Copyright © 2022 Anike Kirsten •