Fleeing from the Monster

They drafted my sister to be sacrificed to the monster last autumn. I never in a million years expect my name to be drawn this time. But once I see Keri Palmer flashing on the TV screen, I know I only have two options. Accept my fate of being fed to a monster, leaving my younger sister, Leah, all alone, or run and try to escape with her. I choose the latter.

Now, I have the government hunting me down, desperate to catch me in time to lower me into the ground at midnight. If they don’t send down a sacrifice, the monster will rise to kill us all, or so we’ve always been told. Only the rumors have been spreading, about sexy monsters who want women for more than just a meal. News outlets have shown drawings of them that make forbidden thoughts run through my mind.

I’m determined not to find out which of the rumors are actually true. I refuse to meet the same end my older sister did. Either I make it into another quadrant, or I’ll give that monster hell when they lower me down to him.

One way or another, I won’t lose.