Beat the Brain #2 — Sci-Fi / Dystopian

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Genre: Sci-Fi / Dystopian
Consideration: Keep the worldbuilding light, the conflict heavy

They told us the air would be clean again by 2090.

It’s 2092, and I haven’t seen blue sky since I was four.

I stood outside the dome this morning, watching the sterilizers sweep the perimeter. Mom said it was just a routine scan. But Mom says a lot of things now.

Inside my jacket, I hid the bird.

It was small, trembling, nothing but bones and shadow-colored feathers. I’d found it in the filtration shaft, wheezing but alive — a miracle in the rust and rot.

“If they catch you with it, they’ll mark you,” Eli warned me.

But how do you walk away from something breathing? How do you bury hope while it’s still twitching?

I named her Ember. Because the world may be ash, but we’re not done burning yet.