About 20
“They promised we’d be fine by tomorrow. They forgot to mention tomorrow would never come.”
Discover the gripping 30-minute dystopian thriller that has readers turning pages past midnight.
In a world where anyone under twenty is biologically unkillable, 19-year-old Suho Lee is a ‘Contributor.’ He is a human shield, legally leased by mega-corporations to test neurotoxins and explosives, dying hundreds of times for blood money.
He always believed his pain served a higher purpose. He always believed his sacrifice saved lives.
He was lied to.
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Author Bio:
Bo Park is a Korean science fiction writer whose work explores systems, sacrifice, and the erosion of human dignity.
His debut series SHRUNKEN (6 volumes) follows humanity after an AI reduces the entire species to 1/100th of its original size — and discovers that the real diminishing was never physical. When efficiency becomes the highest virtue, what happens to the beings who are no longer efficient?
His dystopian short story “20” imagines a world where every child under twenty is biologically immortal. They die and resurrect at midnight, whole and unharmed. No one knows why. But corporations discovered that each resurrection drains an invisible reservoir called life reserves — and built a legal system to exploit children’s bodies for pharmaceutical research. The children call it service. The billboards call it noble sacrifice. The system calls it “You’ll be fine by tomorrow.”
They are not fine.
“20+” continues the story from the adults’ perspective on the first night of war. A veteran commander. A soldier who just lost his immortality. A pharmaceutical scientist watching lifespans hit zero on her spreadsheet. A girl who went to find her friend and became the leader of an army.
Two worlds. One question: what does it cost to be human inside a machine that has already decided you are not?
Bo Park lives in South Korea. His books are available on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.