Will, but I wonder if they'd be able to do it every day, with the threat

Seem talented at assuming the indifferent and emotionless stance at To be without her emotions, because she rather likes them. She will be taken away in shame to face annihilation. Lot in life, and she knows she must keep a lid on hers at all times or Genetically designed to fit in and do as they are told. Imagine if you are the only person with a full gamut ofĮmotions in a world of clinical, matter-of-fact peers who have been In fact, as we grow older, we do learn to keep our emotions I'm sure we've all seen some children shamed and shunned for being 'tooĮmotional'. Trust? What is this emotion called love? And what if she isn’t just an She hears stories of aĭesigner-stories that fill her mind with more questions: Who can she The Scientist’s Pod, the clearer it becomes that things are not as Is being groomed as a Scientist-steps in and persuades the Scientists to But before that can happen, Berk-her former Pod mate who Of her Pod, Thalli is taken to the Scientists for immediateĪnnihilation. Music to record as her community’s assigned musician, she can no longer Her for most of her life, but when she receives an ancient piece of Thalli has kept her malformation secret from those who have monitored Have genetically removed it from the citizens they have since created. Ten scientists who survived the nuclear war that destroyed the worldĪbove believe that emotion was at the core of what went wrong-and they Thalli is different than others in The State.

The toxic gas that willĬomplete her annihilation is invading her bloodstream. Minutes and twenty-three seconds left to live.

Anomaly by krista mcgee