The Illinois Youth Center in Millersville is a maximum security prison for teenage girls. There are no newspapers allowed in the facility, no internet, no TV news. No way to tell that something in the world on the other side of the fence has gone very wrong. At least not at first.
Genre: FICTION / DystopianSlows have been very slow. This was very much a "for the love" book. It's in the running for a couple of contests that have a chance of bringing sales back to life.
The Queen
The Queen’s driver was nervous as they passed the final checkpoint, but the Queen didn’t seem to care, she was still having fun, still talking. The Queen hardly ever stopped talking. The Queen’s driver had long since come to accept that the better part of his job was to be a punching bag, someone for the Queen to throw words at.
It was different then what he’d seen on television before he’d met her in person. There’d been at least three different Queens, just like there’d been three or four different Elvis’. The driver’s parents had known the Queen who talked softly and quoted bible verses and spent a lot of time standing next to powerful people, the Queen who had another name that she hardly used now. She was not yet the Queen the driver had grown up with, the Queen who cut men to pieces on talk shows with less than a sentence.
The Queen was now the Queen, always, everywhere. Even for her driver, who saw her every day, who heard her expound on every stray thought that crossed her mind, she never slipped, never became ordinary. Maybe some day it would happen and he’d have something to tell his children about.
“Crisis points in people’s lives are the most important, though, people don’t take them seriously enough. There are a number of reasons for that, they’re harder to see, harder to write a book about, at least a book anyone will take seriously. People don’t trust biographies. You have to wonder what’s wrong with the person who wrote the book, that they would throw away so much of their own lives looking through the minutia of someone else’s. And even if..."
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Translation in progress.
Translated by Marco Aurelio Barsanelli de Almeida
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