I tell child services I’m happy, loved.

“Say different and your nose will grow,” my guardians threaten.

I feared and believed it once; now it’s just fear.

The inspectors gone, truth returns: no real boy, I’m a puppet, cloned organs for some billionaire’s sick son.

Tomorrow, my strings get cut.

William Mitchell lives in East Sussex in the South of England. He is an award-winning author, having had early success with various Horror and Science Fiction publications before winning the Writers of the Future contest in 2012. His first novel, CREATIONS, came out in 2014 with John Hunt Publishing.