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Emotions make you a threat. The fact that I’m feeling them means I’m a danger to everyone close to me. To everyone in the entire Community. It was destructive passions that destroyed the world. I studied the same history books as everyone else. I should know how much safer we’ve been since they chipped us all to save us from volatile fervor of any and every kind.

Except…

My chip has started glitching.

And while it’s true, I’m absolutely terrified by all the emotions suddenly blasting me like a tidal wave… there’s also… Well, I didn’t have a name for the feeling that welled up the first time I felt beauty. And joy. I had to look up the words in the old textbooks.

And nothing in the world could prepare me for the rapturous rush of ecstasy that hits when I have my first kiss. A gorgeous girl with honey eyes steals my breath and my heart.

Because it turns out I’m not alone with my terrible secret. There are others. And my safe world is about to turn upside down. Now that I’ve felt these things, I can’t go back to the nothingness. I won’t go back.

Not that I could anyway. Because did I forget to mention… I’ve sorta kinda also developed some super-powers. And I think it’s about time to tear this whole thing down.

CWs: while the book is generally PG-13 apart from cursing, there are references to murder, apocalypse, slavery, $e><ual abu$e, ma$terbation, geno¢ide, mind control.

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