Genre: Dystopian; Social Fiction; Short Story
ScreenCraft 2017 Cinematic Short Story quarter-finalist.
The authorities want to make an example out of Marya so they hunt her.
She has two options: surrender or risk starvation and other dangers. She chooses the latter.
If she remains in Hades’ Den with other outcasts, dissidents, misfits and criminals, she’ll waste away. But if she gives herself up, The Coalition won’t spare her.
As tension mounts in Hades’ Den, Marya finds keeping her past a secret the least of her worries . . .
Can Marya survive the growing conflict or will she cave and face her past?
[This book contains mature themes.]
“Borders” is a dystopian story that details the cultures of two nations: one where too much freedom has led to a state of chaos and the other where liberty has been sacrificed to maintain order. In the middle is Hades’ Den, an area fenced off from both sides where a collection of wayward souls gather.
The journey of not only the main character through this Limbo, but of the others makes the reader contemplate the matters of freedom and peace from various perspectives, drawing more questions than answers. The social message isn’t the only attraction of the book. The plotline itself revolves around well-developed characters and their mysterious pasts and paths.
It’s all around intriguing and a very good read. I really appreciate stories that can focus on important ethical and philosophical issues as well as maintain an actual course of events that is interesting by itself.
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