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Defragmenting
Daniel: The Organ Scrubber
by Jason
Werbeloff
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GENRE: Sci-fi Thriller
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BLURB:
7 stolen organs.
1 vengeful victim.
A gruesome sci-fi thriller.
Organ scrubbing was a bloody job, but somebody had to do it. Daniel, an
orphan from the Gutter, was put to work scrubbing kidneys at aged twelve. The
job had its perks: a warm bed, Law and
Order reruns, and an all-you-can-eat Mopane worm buffet.
Until the Orphanage stole Daniel’s parts, and sold them on the organ
market.
Now Daniel has grown up, and yearns to become whole again. The
cybernetic organ replacements just aren’t the same – he needs his parts back.
But the new owners of his organs won’t give them up. Not without a fight.
Just how far will Daniel go to regain his missing pieces? And how much
more of himself will he lose along the way?
Defragmenting Daniel is a cyberpunk crime thriller that will unnerve you. Every part of you.
“A work of great imagination. Powerful and gripping.”
“A stark and moving experience.”
– ReadersFavorite.com, 5 Star Review
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EXCERPT TWO:
The sun beat down on
the crown of Daniel’s mop of thick, black hair. The hanging smoke in the air
thickened. His left eye cried. His lungs protested, spasming as he penetrated
deeper into the warzone. About a hundred yards into New Settlers Ways, the
sweet stink of burning flesh competed with the smoke. Daniel remembered that
smell from the operating theatre, when they’d removed his amygdala. But it was
stronger here. Omnidirectional. As though the entire area were a seeping wound,
and the sun its surgeon.
Daniel tried to
count. To find sevens in the chaos. But the buildings weren’t in rows or
columns. There was no order here.
We had you cleaned
We had you eat
He rubbed his eye.
Tried to bury the memory of the song.
We love your toes
We love your meat
Odin crawled out of
the rucksack and perched on Daniel’s shoulder. They surveyed the destruction
together. Daniel could hardly feel the cat’s claws burrowing into his clavicle.
“No good,” said
Daniel, echoing the old shopkeeper.
He walked over to one
of the mounds of rubble. Heat radiating from the stones baked his cheeks.
Odin meowed. Dug his
claws deeper into Daniel’s chest.
“What do you want
here?” called out a voice.
Odin darted into the
satchel as Daniel whirled around. His cybernetic knee grinded with the sudden
turn.
“You have no business
here,” said a man. He wore a holey t-shirt and a week-long beard. His eyes were
swollen. Frantic.
“I’m looking for
Porcu–”
“We don’t need your
help,” hissed the Holey Man.
“I’m not here to
help. I’m looking for Porcuperry Road.”
“You PeoPle …” The
man spat his P’s “… from up north think you better than us. What with your
implanted parts and such.” He nosed the air in the general direction of
Daniel’s cybernetic knee.
“Sir, I mean no
disrespect, but I don’t like my knee. I’d rather have my original.”
The filthy man’s eyes
snapped back to Daniel’s face. “What’s that you say?”
“The Orphanage took
my parts to pay my debt. I never wanted the replacements they gave me.” Daniel
flexed his leg. The joint wheezed as he lowered it slowly to the earth.
“Hmmm.” The Holey Man
stroked his grizzled chin. He had a gash along the bottom of his arm. Were
those maggots wiggling along the edges? The man needed a good scrub of Rejek.
“What was it you’re
looking for?” asked the Holey Man.
“84 Porcuperry Road.”
“Porcuperry was …
fi-si-seven blocks down.”
Daniel’s heart
quickened. He eyed the broken streets. Doubted he’d be able to make out city
blocks in this mess.
The man sighed. “I’ll
take you.” He turned on his feet and walked off, not waiting to see if Daniel
followed.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Human. Male. From an obscure planet in the
Milky Way Galaxy. Sci-fi novelist with a PhD in philosophy. Likes chocolates,
Labradors, and zombies (not necessarily in that order). Werbeloff spends his
days constructing thought experiments, while trying to muster enough guilt to
go to the gym.
He's written two novels, Hedon and The Solace
Pill, and the short story anthology, Obsidian Worlds. His books will make your
brain hurt. And you'll come back for more.
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Read about the author, and the philosophy
behind his fiction.
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AMAZON BUY LINK:
**The book
will be free on Amazon for 4 days, August 24 – 27 2016.**
The Organ Scrubber is the first fragment of
the Defragmenting Daniel trilogy:
Fragment 1 – The Organ Scrubber
Fragment 2 – The Face in a Jar
Fragment 3 – The Boy Without a Heart
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during the tour.
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