Anita Manuel

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“The City of Hollow Hearts” by Anita Manuel

Submitted to Contest #290

Title: The City of Hollow HeartsThe city of Hollow Hearts had no place for love. The Council of Order had decreed long ago that love was the root of all chaos, the seed of disobedience, and the force that drove people into madness. To maintain a perfectly structured society, emotions had to be stripped down to practicality. Families were assigned, marriages arranged for compatibility, and reproduction strictly regulated. Children were not raised by their biological parents but by the state, in sterile education facilities designed to elimina...

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