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    Utopia
    Utopia
    Utopia
    Ebook42 pages36 minutes

    Utopia

    By Gabriel Grantham

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    Not What It Seems - The Unusual Girl in an Unusual World Looking for Adventure and She Finally Finds It.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 18, 2014
    ISBN9781311216038
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      Utopia - Gabriel Grantham

      2014

      Prologue

      I lived in a world only dreamed of by people of the past.  A world where cars flew through the air and walking was practically a thing of the past, or so I thought.

      Civilization had reached new heights.  Diseases were a thing of the past.  Everyone lived in excellent health.  People lived to ripe old ages and then they died.  Where they went, no one knew.  Spirituality was something no one wanted to dwell on.  Because if they did, then they would have to think of things like righteousness and morality and good and bad.

      In my world, there was no such thing as good or bad, people did as they pleased.  Crime was unheard of.  Everything was possible.  And nothing was disallowed.

      It was a world without sin.  It was Utopia… or so we thought.

      Down below, the city sparkled.  Glass skyscrapers towered above silver clouds, like jewels, they glistened under the setting sunlight.  High above the clouds was where I lived.

      My world was perfect.  My parents loved me.  I was an only child.  My parents had blithely decided that they only wanted one child and they stuck to the plan.  They always stuck to the plan.  So I grew up alone in a world of plenty.  My intense desire for someone to love was not fulfilled by my parents.  They were wrapped up in each other and barely paid attention to me.

      I had long ago decided to take my life in my own hands and do what I wanted.  I lived up to my name and became jaded with the extreme ennui that seemed to afflict my generation.  Mine was a generation that would do anything for kicks.  Anything to get the heart racing and the blood pumping.

      Anything…

      _______________

      PORT LIONLE

      Jade, dear, my mother called, don’t forget to eat tonight, your father and I won’t be back until late.  I rolled my velvet blue eyes up into my head, polished another toenail, Sparkly Goth Midnight, and sighed.  Same old thing every Friday night since I could remember.  Uh huh, I grunted, knowing my mother didn’t even need a reply, they were already out the door.

      The quiet whisk of the glass door went unheard, as did the startup of the luxurious hovering limousine that flew my parents off to another endless midnight party of revelry that inevitably ended up into a drunken orgy of wife-swapping, and whatever else happened at those alcohol-fueled, drug-injected parties my parents seemed unable to live without.

      At last!  I am alone.  I stretched and looked at my sparkly toenails, they looked like stars in a black sky on the furthest reaches of the city.  My soon-to-be favorite hangout.  I had heard rumors that there were races on the outreaches of the city, far from prying eyes.  Above the woods, where wild animals lived, and the occasional human who protested the immoralities of the age.  Those that lived in the woods.  Something about people that lived outside of the boring world I lived in, intrigued me. 

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