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by Kody Boye Genre: YA Sci-fi/Dystopian Release date: April 3rd 2017 Summary: I was never afraid of monstersâat least, not until They came: the visitors from outer space. Now They're in our skies, on our streets, always watching, forever waiting. At seventeen, I'm just about to graduate from the Juvenile Education System and declare my career of choice. The Midnight Guardâwho protect our community from the vicious things that lie outside our wallsâcalls to me. Itâs hard, dangerous work, with grueling hours that offer little sleep, but itâs the one thing I know will help make a difference in our ever-changing world.
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When They came, the story began, we thought They were our salvation. We thought Theyâd give us energy, heal our sick, solve world hunger. Instead, the story would continue, They didnât. This was the point where I usually stopped listeningâbecause, after hearing it one-hundred-thousand times over the past few years, it was never told any differently. The story never changed. The point was never made any clearer.
When They came, it shouldâve began, They only had one thing on Their minds:
Our destruction.
Sadly, this was the story I had to listen to on my final day in the Juvenile Education Systemâwhen, after studying a generalized curriculum for several agonizing years, I would finally be emancipated and graduate into the Adult Work Force at the age of seventeen. It wasnât my idea of a âfinal hurrah,â but at least it beat a test.
âAna Mia Sofia Berrios!â The teacher slapped the edge of my desk with his pointer stick hard enough to jar me out of my thoughts. âPay attention!â
I instinctively drew my hands away and set them in my lap without response. Mr. He merely nodded before pulling a projecting screen from the ceiling. âNow,â he continued, making sure to catch my eye as he turned to survey the room of twenty students. âWe are all aware of the events that began on September 17th, 2024âwhen we finally established First Contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. What we couldnât have anticipated was the fallout that would occur thereafter.â
Mr. He rounded the stool the battery-projector lay upon. His eyes held a certain sadness. âIt is my responsibility, as a senior educator of the Juvenile Education System, to relate to you one final time the dangers that exist outside the walls of Fort Hope.â
His trembling fingers searched for the projectorâs ON/OFF button as his eyes remained fixed on us.
He didnât want to do it. That much was clear. He didnât want to push that button and reveal to us the one thing that haunted our memories, our dreams, our every waking moment. But it didnât matter. He had to do it. It was requiredâactually mandatedâthat we see the things that lay outside our walls. But for people like meâwhoâd happened to live through, survive, and still dreamed about itâI could already see it as his index finger pressed the button: lingering in the shadows, waiting for a moment to strike, watching, waiting, anticipating, breathing with only a wheeze as it lifted its hands to turn the doorknob and step right into myâ
The projector came on.
I wanted to scream.
But somehowâsomewayâI managed to hold it in as its image filled the screen.
About the Author
Born and raised in Southeastern Idaho, Kody Boye began his writing career at fourteen with the publication of his story [A] Prom Queenâs Revenge in the Yellow Mama Webzine.
After being published nearly three-dozen times in various markets, he went independent at eighteen and currently writes horror and dark fantasy fiction.
He is the author of the young-adult science-fiction series When They Came, The Adventures of Carmen Delarosa, and the Scarlet Jane Files.
He currently lives and writes in the greater Dallas, Texas area.
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