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As SHCI offers compete with her family’s strained finances, Kayla navigates pressure, social stigma, and the chilling reality of early acceptance contracts. After a birthday cake arrives as a coordinated sedative, her night routine becomes the last threshold before irreversible change, exposing how “offers” mask exploitation.","HUMAN COMMODITY by Candace Smith  \nCopyright 2010 Candace Smith Published by Strict Publishing International  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrelude  \nKayla sat at the dinner table, absently stirring her mashed potatoes and looking as though she were trying to read hidden signs in the gravy. Her brother Billy was two years younger, and he was animatedly discussing his role in last weekend’s football game. He had gotten lucky when Tyler Benson had managed to trip up two players just as Billy approached the five yard line, and the average-sized boy stepped over the crumpled forms into the end zone, giving the Smithville Bulldog’s the winning touchdown.  \n“Coach says spotters for state are going to start showing up in a couple of weeks.” Billy looked at his parents with fevered excitement and dreams of scholarships and stardom in his eyes. “I’m going to make a deal with Tyler to use the play again. It makes us both look good.”  \n“Kayla, sweetheart, stop playing with your food,” her mom admonished.  \nKayla sighed and scooped up a small portion of her green beans. She had always done the right thing. Her manners were impeccable. She was in the top five of her senior class, she had avoided the advances of hormone riddled teenage boys, and she dressed in a preppy, conservative style that concealed a beautifully blossomed figure of a slender, though curvaceous, nubile teenage girl. She was also eighteen as of three-twelve that afternoon, so it was quite possible that the extraordinary restraint she had managed against peer pressure was not going to save her.  \nOnce more, the ‘ifs’ entered her mind, appearing as a red flagged list of her sentencing. ‘If ’ her chemistry teacher had not given her a ‘B’ last semester, knocking her out of the five-way tie for top student and the scholarship, ‘if ’ Billy was bigger, making his own football scholarship a feasible way to fund college, ‘if ’ the financial collapse had not been quite so complete that it had caused her parents to overextend their credit right before her dad’s job cut back hours… ‘if ’ the Preservation of Humanity Organization had managed to block legislation for Sanford Human Commodity Investments to legalize the rights of parents to contract daughters over eighteen to the commodity market six months ago… so many red lines on her ‘if ’ list.  \nKayla could sense no indication in her parents’ smiles or behavior as to whether or not they had been selected to receive an offer for her and had signed with SHCI. She knew that they loved her, but even that might not be enough. The world had not rebounded to the point that would necessitate a need to consider sending young women to college, and most considered it to be a luxury…one that her parents could not afford. The brochures from SHCI began showing up in the mailbox six weeks ago, as an irritating reminder that there were no prospects for her after high school. Kayla had read the one stating that the young women they traded ended up in wealthy circumstances of investors who could pay the exorbitant amounts for human commodities. The picture showed a young girl in an opulent setting, smiling as she served tea to a man and his wife.  \nIn contrast, the back cover showed a girl languishing on her parents’worn couch while the mother placed a single bowl of stew on the table and the frazzled, overworked father and brother walked through the door with the grime from their long day at some unknown laborious chore. It went onto say how the money the family would receive for providing their daughter promising circumstances would have saved her brother from a life of menial labor by giving them the funds to send him to college. Kayla had no idea that an entire floor of SHCI was devoted to locating promising commodities and aligning their advertising to exploit the specific circumstances of the families with the girls they wished to acquire.  \nShe did not dare ask her parents their decision, because after Patsy had begun to badger her folk","cbCaiuo1wmLZ5eGS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuo1wmLZ5eGS","pdf",822693,3,133,"English","en",105,"# Prelude\n## Kayla’s high school life and pressures\n## SHCI contracts and the commodity system\n## Social stigma and family decisions\n## The birthday cake delivery and impending control","[{\"question\":\"What is the SHCI system described in the story?\",\"answer\":\"SHCI offers contracts that treat young women over eighteen as human commodities, using advertising and family circumstances to match and acquire them for investors.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Kayla’s family face pressure about her future?\",\"answer\":\"Their finances are strained after a job-hours reduction and financial collapse, leaving them vulnerable to contract offers they cannot afford to challenge legally.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens after Kayla’s birthday cake is delivered?\",\"answer\":\"A man delivers the cake from an SHCI van, and the treat is designed to sedate Kayla gradually, encouraging deeper sleep once the family retires.\"}]","Human Commodity - 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