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    Red Racer
    Red Racer
    Red Racer
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    Red Racer

    By Marie Brown

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    The Eyes are watching you.
    Everyone knows that. The Eyes are everywhere, men muttering into their links to report minor infractions, electronic Eyes recording every move with their unblinking gaze, even informers. Your closest friend might sell you out. All for your safety, of course, in this clean, sanitary, sterile, and utterly repressive world built by the Order.
    But Kief has found a way to escape the rigidly controlled world inside the cityplex. He knows the way to the outside world, and he has a friend out there, and access to the antique car nicknamed by Order news lackeys the Red Racer. Life seems good, until the day he meets up with Ry, a young man that stands his entire world on end. Then, life gets even better... for a while.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarie Brown
    Release dateApr 24, 2012
    ISBN9781476177885
    Red Racer
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    Marie Brown

    "Marie Brown has lived in many locations across the United States, but spends most of her time exploring the realms of imagination. Currently located in Colorado, her brief moments of free time are spent in front of her computer, frequently covered in cats."Blah.Yeah, okay, that's all true. But I'm tired of hiding behind a bland, third-person pseudo-bio, utterly lacking in personality.Hi! I'm Marie Brown, and I write a lot. I self-publish through Smashwords and Amazon because I got tired of getting "well-written, but not our thing" rejection letters. Because, you see, most of my fiction tends to include characters that are either bi or just plain homosexual, and despite increasing acceptance of human sexuality and its many variations across the world, heroes and heroines are still supposed to be straight.Well, mine aren't. So if you're brave, and you don't mind that the main character of a story either isn't interested in sex at all, or is quite likely to hop in bed with someone of the same gender, then give my writings a chance. Come explore my fantasy worlds, or my science fiction worlds, or even spend some time with an occasional random love story set on Earth.And by the way, just this once, I wrote this entire blurb without a cat on my keyboard.

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      Book preview

      Red Racer - Marie Brown

      Red Racer

      Marie Brown

      Smashwords Edition

      ©2012

      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 Smashwords and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 0: Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

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      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 Smashwords and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Prologue

      Sunlight dappled the abandoned dirt road, peering through the leaves of the stately trees. Wind whispered through the leaves, rattling them, and occasionally shaking loose an early faller from the brilliant mix of colors. The trees were just beginning to turn, with vivid yellow and red showing bright and startling against the array of greens.

      Suddenly, the tranquility of the scene shattered with a roar. A gleaming red ground vehicle, outlawed and antiquated but still possessed of great speed and beauty, raced along the lane, scattering leaves and flushing birds from the bushes. It screamed down the road, awakening memories of times long gone. Times when vehicles such as this were common, times when the people were free. . .

      Up in one of the trees, an electronic Eye glared balefully at the scene, a red light indicating that it was transmitting the view of the crime in progress, as it should. Whether or not anyone was watching for the transmission in the distant cityplex was anyone's guess.

      Chapter 1

      Huh, check that out, Kief.

      Kief looked up from his meal and smiled. The vidcaster was showing a view of the infamous Red Racer, the anti-social rebel who regularly made fools out of the Order. Looks like he's at it again.

      Yeah. Wonder who he is? His friend, Cole, stared up at the monitor with a distant look in his eyes, fork dangling forgotten in his hand. The red car on the screen roared down a deserted roadway, then disappeared from the camera's view.

      Huh, don't matter, now do it?

      Kief winced at the grating squeal of Vidder's voice. The screen shifted to show an Order representative, promising dire things in the future of the rebel.

      I mean, Vidder continued rapidly, sliding up to the bar and perching on a stool, he is, uh, he is, like doomed, yes that he be. He waved his arms extravagantly, nearly taking out a nearby patron's drink.

      Settle down, turbo, Kief admonished.

      How so you think he's doomed, Vid?

      "He be way doomed, Cole-me-man. The Eyes, they be watching, and they be going to catch him, 'cause what he do be bad." The wiry little man drew out the vowel until it was nearly a separate word in itself.

      Bad, Vid? Why you say he's bad? Kief glanced up at the vidcaster, but it had long since moved on to other news.

      Because he break the law, man. Vidder widened his faded blue eyes and nodded emphatically. "Breakin' the motor law, that he is. And ev'one know that breakin' the motor law is illeeeegal."

      Yeah, yeah, we know, Cole said impatiently. Now why don't you just zip off, Vidder?

      Vidder raked a hand through his thinning, dirty-blond hair. Zip off your own self, Cole-me-man. This be my off time.

      Yeah, and don't you have somewhere to be? Kief nudged at Vidder. The little guy was okay, really, but a little of his company could go a long way.

      Huh. Me? Vidder frowned, puzzled. Not that I know.

      Excuse me, a new voice said. Startled, Kief looked up and met a

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