Welcome!
I suppose I should say 'Welcome to the madness' again, but I'm not a big fan of repetition, and I think if you're reading this then you'll probably have the picture already. I will say, however welcome to Script Frenzy (the month-long script writing challenge, for those of who you don't know) and furthermore welcome to my month-long 'site.
100 pages.
From scratch.
1-30th April 2008.
Wish me luck, guys. I'm going to need it.
What if, in the year 2120 the government made sexual relations under the age of 21 illegal? Forbidden, punishable, dangerous? Whatever you want to call it, you know you'd be in trouble if you broke those rules. The general public have been waiting for this breakthrough for years! No teenage pregnancies, right? No broken rules, no helpess, clueless parents? Right?
Wrong.
What if the government also made abortion illegal under the same age? What then?
The year is 2135, and both pregnancy and abortion are illegal for all those under the age of 21. There is only one punishment: Adoption. Don't be fooled, Adoption these days isn't what it once was. It has morphed, adapted, evolved over the years. These days, if your child is going to be Adopted then there is only one thing to do. Actually, there are two:
1) Panic.
2) Run. Fast. Now.
Luce Adlam is nineteen years old and has just given birth. Not a normal teenager by any standards, when Luce wakes to find her daughter missing, she will do what few young people have ever dared dream.
"No child should have to atone for the mistakes their parents made. --If that's true, then why should mine? Why should my daughter have to atone for the damage that her father caused?"
That child is hers, and she'll be damned if anybody is going to get in her way on the quest to get her back, least of some eccentic-looking twenty-something lad who has more than a little problem with keeping his mouth shut.
Heno won't come between Luce and her daughter. He wouldn't dare. But will she come between him and his?