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    Control Z (I Am Mercury series - Book 4)
    Control Z (I Am Mercury series - Book 4)
    Control Z (I Am Mercury series - Book 4)
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    Control Z (I Am Mercury series - Book 4)

    By Grant Piercy

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    A protest group calling itself Control Z has occupied Grant Park in downtown Chicago. Aimed at undoing social injustice, income inequality, sexism, and racism, this group has provoked a startling response from authorities. One anonymous protestor, B, is coerced into locating someone who appears to have inspired the movement: convicted killer and fugitive Alex Graves. Will she catch up to him before the authorities do? This is the fourth novella of the I AM MERCURY series.

    I AM MERCURY is a nine-part serial suspense thriller about visions of other worlds, the stories we tell ourselves, and the things we do for love. Each short novella in the series features a different narrator, a different lens through which to view the events of the series. After the riot at Yorkville State Pen, journalists and spies spar off, protestors march forward, and dangerous games play out. What do these interlocking stories mean for each other, and how will they coalesce?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrant Piercy
    Release dateFeb 2, 2017
    ISBN9781370772377
    Control Z (I Am Mercury series - Book 4)
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    Grant Piercy

    Grant Piercy is the author of THE ERASED SAGA and I AM MERCURY. He lives with his family in Columbus, Ohio.

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      Control Z (I Am Mercury series - Book 4) - Grant Piercy

      CONTROL Z

      a novella

      I AM MERCURY, BOOK IV

      By Grant Piercy

      Published by Grant Piercy at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2017 Grant Piercy

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work, in whole or in part, in any form.

      Cover art by Grant Piercy

      Edited by Emily Zapp

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

      This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the material or artwork herein is prohibited without the express written permission of the author.

      This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, organizations and products depicted herein are either a product of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously.

      Table of Contents

      dramatis personae

      epigraph

      (segue)

      1. undone

      2. the conversation

      3. is he safe?

      4. somewhere i can control

      5. culmination

      (segue)

      about the author

      Dramatis Personae

      - B, a seeker [narrator]

      - Chloe, an organizer

      - Hudson, a helpful hand

      - Ryan Hoffman, an agitator

      - Alex Graves, a fugitive

      epigraph:

      Recreation is the new oppression.

      - Control Z manifesto (unpublished)

      (segue)

      There was a knock on the door. Startled, she fumbled with her phone for a moment. She had been sending a text message; this was the only time she had to do it. In the bathroom. On the toilet. The muffled voice from the other side of the door asked if everything is okay.

      I’m fine. Just need a minute! she shouted.

      The phone vibrated in her hand, sending another jolt of panic through her. Did they hear it? Do they know what she’s doing? What would happen if they did? Last night, her host didn’t even ask how she found the apartment.

      Her pants and underwear were down around her ankles. Her wheelchair beside her, she felt fully exposed and weak, wondering if the man outside had recognized her. Why did she stay? Why? This plan...

      Those lips. Those lips that tasted so sweet.

      She only felt so panicked because of the sense of transgression. The text message she sent to Hoffman read, Contact made. Asset acquired.

      Maybe the feeling in her stomach would go away, that sick nausea like a brick lodged just below her chest. He was right outside. He was close enough to cut. Everything was going just the way she wanted.

      1. undone

      (B)

      Terrible men run the world. Management and politicians and bankers and stockbrokers. They decide the structures, the processes that suppress and sedate the great masses. The people don’t understand their power; their voice has been taken from them. They incarcerate us within their capitalist prison. No matter the economic or political system, the sociopaths find ways to elevate themselves to the top. The rest of us are too busy surviving. And what’s it matter, anyway? We’re limited. We’re dust. Even in our new social contract, the cream rises.

      Terrible men run the world, that much I know for sure. And who will be their undoing?

      In the Control Z library, titles were meant to be indicative of the movement, books about social change with no judgment given to their merit. You could borrow a set of comic books or a graphic novel and no one would think you were childish. You might have read Marx and no one would think you were a communist (no one here, anyway). Tomes about dystopias shared shelf-space with

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