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    Green Rules!
    Green Rules!
    Green Rules!
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    Green Rules!

    By Markus Zimmermeier

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    Germany in the year 2117. The seventeen-year-old Leona Müller lives in a safe and green paradise-like biotope. But a brutal murder sets off an avalanche of incidents that shake her seemingly perfect world and urge her to decide between her old life and the vision of a new society.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJan 12, 2017
    ISBN9783961423002
    Green Rules!
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    Markus Zimmermeier

    - Autor von spannenden, witzigen und romantischen Büchern - Hobby-Poet - Lehrer (Latein/Englisch), - wohnhaft in Köln, gebürtig aus Lippstadt (Westfalen) - Webmaster von www.lateinhautrein.de - Motto: Creation = Satisfaction

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      Green Rules! - Markus Zimmermeier

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      Chapter 1

      „Wake up, Leona! It's eight o'clock. A little surprise is waiting for you in the kitchen!", my mum calls. It's Sunday, the 31st October, which usually isn't a day for surprises or presents. So I don't hurry as I get out of bed. Probably it's only one of her new muesli creations. She is quite creative when it comes to cooking and baking. But I'm not really fond of serving as a guinea pig. And I'm not really hungry.

      „Hurry up, Leona! Don't let it run away!", she urges me.

      It can run?! Now I'm interested. In next to no time I'm standing next to my bed and ask curiously: „What is it, mum? Please, tell me!"

      „Come and find out!"

      I do as she tells me. One moment later I'm standing in the kitchen looking at a dog basket with a tiny pug puppy. I'm in raptures! „Oh, what a charming little dog! I run to the basket and lift the dog out of its basket. „Just look how cute it is! I could have it for breakfast. He is lucky because I'm still not hungry. „What a wonderful surprise, mum!"

      „You're welcome, dear. How do you want to call him?"

      „Hmm. Let me think about it! How about Theo?"

      „Okay. Let's call him Theo! Why don't you show Theo his new world after your breakfast? But don't forget to take the winter coat and your muffler! It's very cold outside!"

      „Mum! I'm not a little child anymore! Next month I'll be 18 years old! Then I'll be a grown-up!"

      „I know. But you still haven't seen so much of the world yet."

      She's right.

      All my life, which started in 2100, I haven't seen anything else but Terra 42. This is the name of our habitat or, as we prefer to call it, biotope. It consists of about 300 houses and is protected by a huge impenetrable green hedge. Here in Germany there are 100 of these habitats. All of them are shaped like the figure eight. While the shops and the private houses with their little gardens are in one of the two circles, the second circle includes a very big garden, some fields, a small forest and some buildings for the gardeners, the security guards and the zookeepers. Yes, Terra 42 can pride itself on a little zoo with some really rare animals. In the centre of our habitat is our huge community hall which functions both as a school and a church. On top of it there is a big globe and a little wind wheel protruding from it.

      I really love our habitat because of its perfect symmetry and harmony. Nature and art form a wonderful union here. I don't care about other places. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. In fact, I don't mind living here for the rest of my life, in particular, after seeing the pictures of the outer parts of Germany. Yuck! The rest of Germany seems to be very, very ugly.

      Breakfast can wait. A sightseeing tour with my new friend and protégé Theo can't. I just have to show him which beautiful world he has been born into. Now. So I put him into a blanket and carry him with me. Fortunately, he is almost as light as a feather.

      I look at my Biowatch, which is not an ordinary watch. Among its features belong the abilities to show your heart rate and the pollution of the air. If it's clean, the Biowatch is green. In Terra 42 the air is always clean, so I've never seen a different colour than green. And what does its chronometer show now? It says that it's 8:13. It's time to leave the house. Outside the sun is shining on the outer and the inner verdant hedges of Terra 42. Together with the green lawn and the houses covered with greenery, they please the eye of the nature-loving viewer with at least fifty shades of green. In brief, green rules in Terra 42.

      As I walk towards the centre of our beautiful habitat, I feel a weak flow of eastern winds, which makes the coldness tolerable. A peaceful silence escorts me on the deserted gravel path. I look into Theo's big brown eyes and I know: This is another day in paradise.

      „What do you think of your new home, Theo?, I ask the dog. „Isn't it pretty and snug, my lovely little pug? Without waiting for an answer I let him down on the lawn. „Here! Just smell it yourself!"

      Absentmindedly I watch him sniffing the grass. I just can't believe how cute this little piece of life is.

      Then I hear something rustling behind me. I turn around and I am horrified! A monster is attacking me! Oh holy Mother Earth, help me!

      I can't move. Instead of reaching for my police whistle I can only watch the monster slowly approaching me. When it is only one metre away from me, it stops, stares at me and bursts out laughing. I think I have heard that laughter before. Isn't that... ? Then the mask is being dropped and a grinning face appears. It belongs to Wolfgang, the little brother that I've never had and that I will never have because nobody is allowed to have more than one child in the Terras. I've known him since we played in the same sandbox which all the children from the neighbourhood shared.

      „Wolfgang, how could you scare me that much?", I shout furiously. I am so upset that I am about to kick him. But in the knowledge of his physical superiority I hold back.

      „Well, he answers with a broad grin, „I could scare you that much because I found this awesome werewolf mask in your mother's toyshop.

      „Oh, I see..., I say understanding why he chose this mask. „Wolfgang, the werewolf.

      „Exactly! At last I can be what I was meant to be. And did you know that the Americans invented a holiday called Halloween, where people disguised in order to frighten their fellow men?"

      „No. And I'm glad that it's history now."

      „Well, I think that not everything from America is bad."

      „Don't say that loud!, I warn him. „If your teacher could hear you, she would surely punish you.

      „Punish ME? I don't think so. I'm the teacher's pet!"

      „I know that you're quite popular with our teacher, you geek. But I think you forgot Barbara. Nobody is doing better at school than her."

      „Oh, haven't you heard?, Wolfgang asks with surprise. „It has been discovered that Barbara is pregnant. So a hard time is waiting for her.

      One of our green rules forbids us to get children before we are 28. Any pregnancy before this time will be punished by being put into the cage of shame.

      „That's bad luck!" I remember her talking enthusiastically about children. But I

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