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<b>Rite of Synapse by Angela Whalen</b>
<b>Rite of Synapse by Angela Whalen</b>
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<br/>In 2041, lab tests showed that a dead rat can, in fact, twitch his whiskers again. In 2042, lab tests showed that a dead human being can, in fact, walk again. But if there was anything the results of the Tower 3 Tests proved, it was that the dead cannot truly live again; once dead, always dead. Death, however, could be beaten at its own game.<br/>
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<br/>In 2041, lab tests showed that a dead rat can, in fact, twitch his whiskers again. In 2042, lab tests showed that a dead human being can, in fact, walk again. But if there was anything the results proved, it was that the dead cannot truly live again. Death, however, could be beaten at its own game.<br/>
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Or so Dr. Margot Bachman thought when she developed the vaccine that should have finally helped humanity to overcome its number one destructive disease: death. What she didn’t realize, however, was that the vaccine, when coupled with her brother’s penchant for greed and his company’s penchant for impatience, would give way to a destructive disease far worse than death. Now those who have been infected walk amongst the dead, and those who still walk with the living must put their faith in a scientist, who is half mad and half wicked, to find an unlikely cure--or be served up as lunch in the ruins of one of America’s leading retailers. <br/>
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Or so Dr. Margot Bachman thought when she developed the vaccine that should have helped humanity overcome its number one destructive disease: death. What she didn’t realize, however, was that the vaccine, when coupled with her brother’s greed and his company’s penchant for impatience, would give way to a destructive disease far worse than death. Now those who have been infected walk amongst the dead, and those who still walk with the living must put their faith in a scientist, who is half mad and half wicked, to find an unlikely cure-or be served up as lunch in the ruins of one of America’s leading retailers.<br/>
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And Margot Bachman must put her faith in her own brain, if she wants to save the world.  That is, if she hadn’t intended for this to happen all along.
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NaNoWriMo



National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

As participants spend November writing, they can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.

In 2009, NaNoWriMo had 167,150 participants. 32,178 of them crossed the 50k finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.