Whence

It is 1973.The U.S. Supreme Court has just handed down the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which gives women a constitutional right to terminate their pregnancies up to and including one month after birth. A year later the U.S. Government establishes the Department of Termination Control. Its job? To create a comprehensive DNA database to help monitor and implement post-birth terminations.And to track down and kill anyone who was scheduled for termination but somehow escaped. No matter how long it takes. No matter how much it costs. No matter how much collateral damage it causes. These official non-persons are known as Terminees, or Terms for short.Over forty years later the inexhaustible tragedy of Terms is still playing out across America. And when Rob and Deb Miller decide to start a family, it causes outcomes they never expected.This alternate history novelette is the first of several stories exploring a new universe -- the horrific world of Whence.