About Sarina, Sweetheart by Megan Carney
Her name is Sarina Wocek. Her breath is poison. She was not born out of love.
Twenty-three years ago, government officials traced the budding epidemic of hemorrhagic fever HF186-2A in Florida to the Wocek family and their adorable six-week-old daughter, Sarina. Her father, Gregory, admitted his role in genetically engineering a biological weapon with pride.
She was taken to a lab hidden in a rural area of New Hampshire. She hasn’t left since. Her government keepers could cure her, but they won’t.
Genetically engineering a child to be a weapon of mass destruction, that’s unethical. Refining a weapon of mass destruction that someone else created? That’s just being clever.
After twenty-three years of captivity, she escapes. She crosses an ocean to put her father and the lab behind her, but it’s not enough. When she sees the first bleeding sore, she knows she didn’t leave the virus behind either. The only way she’ll be free is by destroying every trace of the lab. She only has one advantage; she doesn’t care if she makes it out
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I’ve been writing since I jotted down a story about a talking hamburger on the pages of my father’s day planner when I was six. During college, I was published as an academic and as a short story writer.
Now I write technothrillers. But I’d like to think they’re not just thrillers. They’re a touch literary, because that’s how I started. A little feminist, because I apologize less these days. Very technical, because details are important.
I genuinely believe well-written stories are a tool for self-reflection and improvement. We never see ourselves clearly, but sometimes we get a glimpse of ourselves in a character. Stories let us process our emotions, wrestle with hard decisions, and explore the consequences of our actions.
The stories we tell ourselves matter because that is how we make and remake ourselves. Telling (and reading) meaningful stories is how we get a better understanding of experiences we haven’t lived.
And that matters a lot.