The Exploding Fete
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ISBN13: 9798985609103
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 16 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 16 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mrs. Candace Winslow is hosting a party at her opulent home. It is the annual awards dinner of the Foundation for the Advancement of Inclusivity and Recognition, whose board she chairs. Every guest arriving hopes to be the recipient of the FAIR Award, which recognizes hardships, injustices, beleaguered states, neglect, plights, disadvantages, and other societal transgressions. There's also a cash prize at stake, of $25,000. Because of the risk of a hate-motivated attack and a leak of the winner, all guest/candidates must surrender their mobile phones. This leaves them all on edge. But little do the party-goers realize that the greatest threat to their safety is themselves. The Exploding Fete is a story of an evening rife with good intentions that is interrupted by one man bent on revenge. The book employs Narrative Branch Technology(TM), which allows readers to choose the outcome that best aligns with their worldview. Despite this accommodation, a probing question arises: Do the rich get away with murder? And what about media attention? Does it do anything to lessen the vulnerability of the helpless, the hapless, the indigent, the indoctrinated, the addicted, the sublimated, the oppressed, the hungry, the starving, the poor, the injured, the overlooked, the maligned, the slandered...
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