Reformed

'It occurred to Lord Justice Highnam that when warned of a flood people inevitably panicked, and took some sort of preventative action. Present them with the same water in a trickle, however, and they would calmly ignore it until they drowned.'

A judge with the power to condemn thousands to a non-life. A lab technician holding the power of life-or-death over his employer. Thousands imprisoned without a clue. A Lawyer looking back at his own death in celebration. The dawn of a new species. A simulation of life. A prison you can’t see or feel. A soldier imprisoned where? Who can you trust when you can’t trust your senses?

In a world where nothing is as it seems, where you can’t rely even on your senses, how do you know what is real? In this collection of short stories you will be called upon to question the very nature of existence. What is reality? What does it mean to live? Can you be certain that those things you perceive, what you hear and see and feel, exist?

'Reformed' is a collection of short stories set in a dystopian near future where everything is monitored and Deep Sleep is a standard punishment for offenders, kept in a suspended state, living in a simulation of Earth, unaware of their predicament. But what happens when one person discovers how to use this technology for his own purposes? How can his victims escape a prison they are unaware of?