CHANNILLO
Dark World
By Kell Frillman
By Kell Frillman
Series Description:
In 2078, sixteen-year-old Ruby R-1046 is introduced to her future mate, Connor C-2246. Over half a century after an alien invasion pilaged our oceans and messed up Earth's natural orbit, what is left of humanity has survived by living in a large underground fall-out shelter that began construction after satellites first picked up alien transmissions in 2016. The complex is governed by strict, almost sadistic laws such as once you reach age sixty, you are “put to sleep” because you are too old to be of use, and your life-mate is chosen for you via a genetic assessment for optimum breeding. No one is allowed near the surface and people are told the only living things above them in the wastelands that used to be our continents are cannibalistic monsters.
Ruby is ordered to marry Connor on her eighteenth birthday, but her heart wants someone else. She is in love with one of her best friends, Reese. On Ruby's sixteenth Birthday, Reese takes Ruby to a forbidden, sealed off passageway and introduces her to Silver, a strange and unkept young girl who has no ID chip and seems to know nothing about the complex. She tells them she is from Earth’s surface. As Ruby and Reese attempt to find out the truth about this unique stranger they slowly begin to uncover a sinister entanglement of lies, genocide and the governments willingness to destroy an entire planet in an attempt to control and “genetically improve” a whole new wave of humanity.
“Dark World” is formatted as a series of novellas, each one focusing on a particular event in the story as each event piles on top of the other to unravel the dystopian tyranny the government has managed to create underground. Although the plot itself is action-packed and designed to keep the readers on the edge of their seats, its the characters themselves that fuel the story with their passion, sense of adventure, love and dedication to one another. The main protagonist, Ruby, is the sixteen year old girl that almost every woman has been at some point. She enters this life-defining story at a pivotal place in her adolescence as she strives to make the leap from childhood to adulthood while caught in the middle of a world of lies that begins to crumble around her. As her beliefs are challenged and tested by these extraordinary events, she responds by clinging naively to love while also digging deep within herself to find her own personal signature of autonomy and bravery, a unique and solidified identity that we all search for as we face impending adulthood.
Category/Genre(s): Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, HorrorUpdated: Weekly
Status: Completed
Author Bio For Kell Frillman:
KELL FRILLMAN - Author of the series "Dark World" right here on channillo.com
Find me elsewhere on the web!!
Twitter : @kfrillman
Blog : kellfrillman.wordpress.com
Insta : @frillstagram
Kell has been writing fiction since her early childhood days of being a very precocious reader. Now an adult, she recently decided to re-dedicate herself to the craft. Check her blog for personal musings and free-to-read short stories. She gave birth to her first serial novel, Dark World, right here on Channillo. Feel free to meet the characters before deciding to subscribe!
When Kell isn't writing, she can usually be found at her day-job rescuing animals, spoiling her four-legged furchildren, reading, travelling, and spending time with friends and family.
Acknowledgements:
A huge, gigantic, planet-sized sphere of THANK YOU!!! to Lashawn Youmans (@LaShawnMarieY on twitter) for her STELLAR editing on Dark World. Grammar, attention to plot detail, description and more; all you could ever want and need from a brilliantly skilled editor that will make sure your final draft is the absolute best it can be!
*** If you need an editor like that, tweet her! She is worth it!!
Series Description:
In 2078, sixteen-year-old Ruby R-1046 is introduced to her future mate, Connor C-2246. Over half a century after an alien invasion pilaged our oceans and messed up Earth's natural orbit, what is left of humanity has survived by living in a large underground fall-out shelter that began construction after satellites first picked up alien transmissions in 2016. The complex is governed by strict, almost sadistic laws such as once you reach age sixty, you are “put to sleep” because you are too old to be of use, and your life-mate is chosen for you via a genetic assessment for optimum breeding. No one is allowed near the surface and people are told the only living things above them in the wastelands that used to be our continents are cannibalistic monsters.
Ruby is ordered to marry Connor on her eighteenth birthday, but her heart wants someone else. She is in love with one of her best friends, Reese. On Ruby's sixteenth Birthday, Reese takes Ruby to a forbidden, sealed off passageway and introduces her to Silver, a strange and unkept young girl who has no ID chip and seems to know nothing about the complex. She tells them she is from Earth’s surface. As Ruby and Reese attempt to find out the truth about this unique stranger they slowly begin to uncover a sinister entanglement of lies, genocide and the governments willingness to destroy an entire planet in an attempt to control and “genetically improve” a whole new wave of humanity.
“Dark World” is formatted as a series of novellas, each one focusing on a particular event in the story as each event piles on top of the other to unravel the dystopian tyranny the government has managed to create underground. Although the plot itself is action-packed and designed to keep the readers on the edge of their seats, its the characters themselves that fuel the story with their passion, sense of adventure, love and dedication to one another. The main protagonist, Ruby, is the sixteen year old girl that almost every woman has been at some point. She enters this life-defining story at a pivotal place in her adolescence as she strives to make the leap from childhood to adulthood while caught in the middle of a world of lies that begins to crumble around her. As her beliefs are challenged and tested by these extraordinary events, she responds by clinging naively to love while also digging deep within herself to find her own personal signature of autonomy and bravery, a unique and solidified identity that we all search for as we face impending adulthood.
Category/Genre(s): Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, HorrorUpdated: Weekly
Status: Completed
Author Bio For Kell Frillman:
KELL FRILLMAN - Author of the series "Dark World" right here on channillo.com
Find me elsewhere on the web!!
Twitter : @kfrillman
Blog : kellfrillman.wordpress.com
Insta : @frillstagram
Kell has been writing fiction since her early childhood days of being a very precocious reader. Now an adult, she recently decided to re-dedicate herself to the craft. Check her blog for personal musings and free-to-read short stories. She gave birth to her first serial novel, Dark World, right here on Channillo. Feel free to meet the characters before deciding to subscribe!
When Kell isn't writing, she can usually be found at her day-job rescuing animals, spoiling her four-legged furchildren, reading, travelling, and spending time with friends and family.
Acknowledgements:
A huge, gigantic, planet-sized sphere of THANK YOU!!! to Lashawn Youmans (@LaShawnMarieY on twitter) for her STELLAR editing on Dark World. Grammar, attention to plot detail, description and more; all you could ever want and need from a brilliantly skilled editor that will make sure your final draft is the absolute best it can be!
*** If you need an editor like that, tweet her! She is worth it!!