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Forced to transport stormtech alien drugs with harsh restraints and degrading prisoner suits, she endures escalating torture under the notorious Ripper Boys. As dwindling sleep and injury sharpen desperation, her resolve clashes with her friend Quinn’s hopeless fixation and Tann’s failing schemes. A tense moment of control and defiance sets the stage for survival and possible rebellion.","SCREAM IN BLUE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nJEREMY SZAL  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2020 by Jeremy Szal  \nStory originally published in London Centric: Tales of Future London. Reprinted with all permissions granted.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nCover designed by Mike Shackle.  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author ’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without express written permission from the author, except for brief quotations in a review.  \nIf you want to be notified when Jeremy Szal’s next book is released, and to receive free short stories, exclusive gifts, cover reveals and other cool stuff, please sign up to his Book Club here. Your email address will never be shared and you can unsubscribe at any time.  \n[www.jeremyszal.com](www.jeremyszal.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nScream In Blue  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Jeremy Szal:  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSCREAM IN BLUE  \nN ever take the same route twice. It’s one of the two most basic rules  \nevery Crawler in London knows. Transporting stolen illicit cargo?  \nGo over the rooftops. Down the tube system. Through tenements, balconies, apartment lofts. Go between the snaking artery system of access tunnels, pipelines, crawlways. Doesn’t matter where you go. As long as you never go the same way twice.  \nThe second rule is to never, ever agree to transport alien drugs. Not the typical stuff you can find at any offworld spaceport – we’ve shuttled plenty of that in our time. No, this is about stormtech. Narcotics made from the DNA of extinct aliens that gets the user addicted to adrenaline.  \nI’ve never broken the second rule. But tonight, I broke the first.  \nThe shuttlecraft rattles at sudden turbulence. My head bangs against the bulkhead. I slump back into my seat, sitting shoulder to shoulder with Tannand Quinn, the rest of my crew. Like them, I wear a thick harness, the broad straps locked in an X shape over my back, over my shoulders and chest, looped around my waist and between my legs. The back of the harness is tethered to the seat I’m strapped into. My hands are sealed in magnetic cuffsand locked to my chest. We each wear prisoner ’s suits – theirs’ blue for men, mine dark purple for women – the words Permanent Prisoner stitched across the back and shoulders, like a sick joke. I’m the only one with a steel mesh muzzle strapped to my face. They fitted me with it after I tried to bite one of our captors. The boys learned quick after that.  \nForty-eight days, we’ve been incarcerated like this, shuttled from place to place, the dread growing each day. Even among the guilds of the  \nSyndicate – London’s violent crime underbelly – the Ripper Boys are notorious for their cruelty. Our captors emerged from the gambling densand smokehouses of Whitechapel. Their suits are fused with nanotech that gives them the appearance of skeletons, wrapped up in Victorian-era garb that clings to them like wet paper, the hems filthy and bloody. Their emblem – a bloodstained knife plunged into an equally bloodstained top-hat – is emblazoned across their weapons.  \nTaking the job was a foolish move, especially when it required us to traverse the Ripper Boys’ territory twice. Everyone knows they’re fickle when it comes to rules. But we didn’t have a single pound to our name and I wasn’t going to permit us to live on the streets again. So we agreed to transport goods across the Ripper Boys’ rooftops, and now that decision has landed us in this predicament. I cannot stop thinking about how I could have averted it. How I could have done better. What decisions would I have altered?  \nI roll my shoulders, numb and aching against my hard plastic seat, my harness biting into my back, my restraints rattling. 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