The story

11th January 2140

My name is Anna.

My name is Anna and I shouldn’t be here.  I shouldn’t exist.

But I do.

It’s not my fault I’m here.  I didn’t ask to be born.  But that doesn’t make it any better that I was.  They caught me early, though, which bodes well.  That’s what Mrs Pincent says, anyway.  She’s the lady that runs Grange Hall.  We call her House Matron.  Grange Hall is where I live.  Where people like me are  brought up to be Useful – the ‘best of a bad situation’, Mrs Pincent says.

Imagine this:  Death is no longer inevitable and all children are an abomination.  There are drugs which stop the onset of ageing and because of this, there’s no room left in the world for youth and renewal and that most natural cycle of life – birth, youth, middle age, death.

This is Anna Covey’s world.

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