The Unidentified by Rae Mariz

Author:Rae Mariz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Mystery, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, molly, Romance, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781921799877
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Published: 2010-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

18 PRIVATE MESSAGES

I couldn’t believe it. It probably didn’t feel real because I hadn’t told Ari yet, so when I got home I opened my notebook(r) to send her a private message. But I noticed I had a new message in my inbox and opened it.

Congratulations. You have joined the ranks of the sold souls. Hope you got a good deal for the price you paid.

by anonymous I was more pissed off than scared this time. I was about to fire off a demanding who are you? email, but I didn’t click Send. In all the stranger-danger seminars they said I should never respond to people I didn’t know, but that’s not what made me pause. I read the message again.

Three times. News of the branding still hadn’t been made public. Jeremy knew about it from his sponsors, now our sponsors. So this person had access to parts of my record that only administrators and sponsors could see.

And there was something familiar about the cadence of the words. The language. It was him.

I wrote:

I know who you are. I recognize your voice. by kidzero I felt a little dizzy after I sent it, maybe because I had been holding my breath. A new message pinged and the air rushed out of me like a deflating balloon.

You shouldn’t be talking to strangers anyway.

Who am I?

by anonymous I didn’t really know his name or anything about him, but I couldn’t admit that now. I wanted to keep talking to him. I quickly typed:

You are the Unidentified. The Unidentified refuses to be typecast, target-marketed, corporate-identified, defined.

by kidzero I didn’t have to wait long for a response.

the UnID.

“Kiddie, what are you doing in there?”

“Nothing,” I said, closing my notebook(r) quickly.

Mom opened my bedroom door. She was smiling.

“Well, are you ready to go out and celebrate? Let me take you out to dinner at Aunt Gillie’s.”

“Yeah, sure,” I said, feeling a little guilty. This was, like, my mom’s worst fear, me chatting with strangers on the interweb, but I smiled back at her. My mind was a chemical rush of excitement from my little secret. I needed to find out who this guy was.

19 GENERATION TRIPLE-A When I entered the Game the next day, my full attention snapped over to one of the advertisement screens in the Pit. It was showing the dummy suicide film. Right there on one of the sponsors’ screens.

The film had been re-edited so instead of the long shots and slow music, it was cut up into choppy, out-of- sequence clips. The final splatter instant-replayed five or six times, intercut with the close-up of the balloon face. The text: WHO ARE YOU? CHOOSE YOUR IDENTITY. flashed on the screen in an edgy-looking font, followed by the logo for Trendsetters clothing.

I stared at the screen in shock. Did clicking OK give Trendsetters permission to remix the film just because it was linked from my page? I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t have the rights to that film.

Everything subversive about the Unidentified film had been spun to sell Trendsetter clothing.

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