They Auctioned the Wrong Man
READING AGE 18+
Dean Ashby went into a cryo-clinic in 2026 hoping to wake up in a future with a cure. He woke up in a future with no men. In the Directorate, a man is a state asset: tagged, weighed, rationed, and sold to the highest faction at a sealed auction. They call him Lot 7. They don't expect Lot 7 to read the contract. Five factions want him. The Directorate would like him sedated. And Dean, a former 911 dispatcher who spent seven years talking strangers out of the worst night of their lives, has just realized something nobody in this world has tried before: asking for terms.
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By two o'clock the next afternoon, I learned what Greywater meant by an evaluation.
It meant standing fully clothed on a circular wooden platform in the center of the inspection room while five women sat at tiered desks three meters away, scratching notes onto glass slates like judges at a county livestock fair.
At least I got to ……
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