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    We Are the Future
    We Are the Future
    We Are the Future
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    We Are the Future

    By Frye Martin

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    The future is so rocky, you'll need a helmet.

    Meet the world's next generation of soldiers, composed of techies, empaths and seers, as they take their exams before they are unleashed on the world. You've never had a test like this. What will these students do? Evenor Partida stands at a precipice of greatness and honor. Is he ready to learn the truth about the ones sworn to protect his community? Valerie must adjust to World 2. She figures out that she is not alone. Two look for meaning in a pile of grenades. In this reality, it may be the only place where meaning can be found.

    Explore the future presented in this collection of Science Fiction stories. We Are the Future includes “Future School,” “The Early Speeches of Evenor Partida,” and “Most are Duds, “Time Twins: World 2.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreedom Dawn Press
    Release dateJan 28, 2015
    ISBN9781310460364
    We Are the Future
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    Frye Martin

    Frye Martin writes YA and adult fiction and loves it.***********The heart,The pen,The why,The when,The nameThe place,The hidden face,The hope,The dream,The bursting seam,The story must be told.***********

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      We Are the Future - Frye Martin

      Freedom Dawn Press

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      We Are the Future

      Published by Freedom Dawn Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Frye Martin

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      We Are the Future

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      Contents

      About the Collection

      Future School

      The Early Speeches of Evenor Partida

      Time Twins: World 2

      Most Are Duds

      Bonus Excerpt

      Coming Titles

      Meet the Author

      Contact the Author

      About the Collection

      Everyone has a vision for the future. Often, this includes wild ideas about new technologies, medical advances, integration of devices and machines into everyday life. People are at the heart of the past, present and future.

      This collection explores that idea, that regardless of what changes in the future, some things remain the same. Still, the future holds incredible opportunities. For evidence that this is true, please read on.

      Future School

      We love to watch movies during our rec time and they are almost always the ones that involve robots and aliens dominating mankind in the future. When I was younger, I wondered why. Why didn't we ever want to see anything else? One day, not long ago actually, I figured it out. We love those movies because we know that is not our future. The future has already been laid out and there are no aliens or disobedient robots there. Man's only enemy is man.

      These people who know the future tell us that the future is now. That is one of the mottos at the school--I call it Future School. We are training to be the future because warfare must always evolve. My last year of school has been full of revelations and I understand now that guns, drones and bombs are only tools for the real weapons--the people who use them. People will be weapons in the future just as we have always been.

      The Future School developed a new method of combat that makes warfare invisible and completely integrated into life. What does this mean? It means I am fighting on the battlefield while sitting next to you on the bus and standing behind you at the library or in the middle of a concert.

      I am highly skilled but you would never know it. I look like the average girl or even below average. Don't be fooled by this extra twenty pounds I'm carrying--I'm a soldier. That's all a part of the game, though. I do more than blend in, I disappear into the background. This isn't the dream of every seventeen year old, I don't think. It's not my dream either, just the way it is.

      We work in sets of three always. That was how it was tactically designed. Each one of us has an important role and without all three of us, we are blinded or just plain cut off at the knees. Dragon is our techie. He likes to call himself the hack wizard but he is basically just a hack. He has amazing computer skills, like all techies, but amazing isn't good enough for the future. He has to be supernatural. Drag can manipulate computers, radios, whatever, with his mind. I don't understand it all since that was part of his training, not mine, but he says it’s all just about electrical currents.

      Pegasus is our seer. When we were first relegated, he was angry. He kept saying that I should have been seer. I never figured out if that was a comment about my gender, my ethnicity or my Caribbean heritage, which he probably does not even know about, but it doesn't matter. He is seer and way better than I could ever be. Seers are able to read the future, not see it, so the name is a misnomer. Pegasus can tell by the draft of the wind now what will happen in up to 24 hours. If a drop of rain falls, he knows the weather patterns for the next few days as far as 50 miles away. He always knows how I will feel at the end of the day while I am eating breakfast. I usually know as well--exhausted. It is tiring working with these guys.

      I am the empath, the communicator. I speak to Dragon and Pegasus telepathically and they, unfortunately, are able to speak to me in response. This way, no matter where we are, we are always in contact. The bad thing is when I'm used as a human telephone and they expect me to relay their messages back and forth when they can easily do it themselves. It’s worse having the ability to basically read the mind of a teenage boy, but as we've gained more skill, they are much more tactful about what they say in their minds.

      Last night was nerve wracking and I could hardly sleep. That is probably good news. Dragon kept thinking me the lyrics to angry rap songs while Pegasus wouldn't stop quizzing me on maneuvers and hypotheticals. I really needed the sleep, but I was comforted by knowing that they were nervous as well. Less than eight hours from lights out, all of the last year kids, including our set, Pi, would be sent out for what the students called the Swim Test. Actually, we call it the Sink or Swim Test but none of us want to consider sinking an actual possibility. This test is exactly as it sounds. The Future School takes its students, drops them in the ocean and leaves. Anyone alive and swimming when they come back passes. There is no acceptable alternative for either the school or the students.

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