The Secret Citizen (Freedom/Hate Series, Book 3) by Kyle Andrews

Author:Kyle Andrews [Andrews, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

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Collin had worked on his project for days. He had written every word of that article himself and he had reread it a hundred times, carefully correcting each mistake and making sure that every sentence flowed perfectly. He had worked on that article until he couldn't stand to look at the computer screen for a single moment longer. Then he ran through it a few more times, just to be safe.

When it came to choosing a title for the paper, he struggled. He didn't want to call it the press or the gazette, because those words still held meaning for people. They conjured images of the big media outlets. Consciously or not, people would see words like those and connect them with the very institutions that Collin was hoping to destroy by publishing real stories and exposing the lies of the press.

Finding the perfect name was probably the hardest part of the entire process for him, thus far. Speaking to the people was easy. If anything, he had too much that he wanted to tell them. He had too many stories of people who had been oppressed or news stories that had been faked. He had a list of potential articles that was as long as his arm, but each one of those articles would be written under the same newspaper name. It could be carried with him for years—possibly decades. It would become the public identity of Freedom, so that one little name had a lot of weight on its shoulders. It needed to be memorable. It needed to strike the right chords inside of people.

It was Liam who wound up being the most help to Collin once this challenge had become so difficult that it was almost comedic. He told Collin that when he was trying to figure out a recipe, he would sit down and make a list of all the ingredients that he had on hand. Then he would mix and match those ingredients, depending on what he hoped to accomplish with the finished product.

It worked. Collin sat down with a piece of paper and a pencil, and he started writing down words that related to what his project was and what he hoped to do with it. In the end, he walked to the computer where Kenny was sitting and he typed in the name of his newspaper: 'THE SECRET CITIZEN'

He stood back and allowed Kenny to look at those words, turning them around inside of his head to see how they settled.

“There's something interesting about it,” Kenny said, narrowing his eyes. “I can't quite put my finger on it.”

Collin smiled and said, “Then it worked.”

When Tracy and Mig were brought into the conversation and looked at the name, Tracy's first question was “Who is the secret citizen?”

But Mig smiled as she looked at the name and said, “I like it.”

“Then we go to print,” Collin replied, slapping Kenny on the shoulder.

Kenny brought up the print command and hovered his finger over the button. He asked, “Are we sure?”

“Do it,” Mig ordered.

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