Shattered by Lee Winter

Author:Lee Winter [Winter, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ylva Publishing
Published: 2017-06-21T05:00:00+00:00

“Have you ever been to hell?” Lena remembered she’d been asked that question once. By a social worker, years ago, when she was a teenager. The question had stuck. As had her answer. “Don’t be stupid. Hell isn’t real.”

She was wrong. So utterly wrong.

Lena yanked her shirt up at the collar over her mouth to stop from gagging. Her eyes were watering, and her hair and skin now reeked of acidic chemicals.

Baotou, Inner Mongolia, Nyah had called this place. It had been their fourth stop on what Lena was starting to think of as a tour of hell.

In the distance was a giant, crouching factory complex that spanned as far as the eye could see—a single Chinese, city-sized corporation swallowing the entire 180-degree horizon. Row upon row of cooling towers and discharge chimneys clawed at the bleak skies, belching out grey and white smoke, like some dystopian nightmare.

But that was nothing compared to what was spread out below them—a lake oozing with thick, black sludge.

“What is it?” Lena asked, barely moving her lips beneath her shirt.

“A tailings pond. It contains all sorts of toxic chemicals, acids, and radioactive elements. The price paid for the next phone or gadget upgrade. This used to be pristine farmland.”

The smell scratched at her throat, making Lena gag. “I never buy any of that crap,” she muttered.

“Well, that makes it all okay then,” Nyah said dryly.

“I didn’t do this,” Lena said, desperate to get her to understand.

Nyah glanced at her as though she was missing some obvious point. Lena gritted her teeth in annoyance.

“I am showing you what matters to your world. What humanity values most.”

“This isn’t us. That’s crap. This isn’t what we value most.”

“No?” The tone was faintly mocking. Without another word Lena was pulled tightly into Nyah’s chest and catapulted skyward.

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