A glutton for punishment:An Electric Eclectic book

A dystopian horror story The time: Not long from now The place: Close to where you live. In a world where health and medical costs have skyrocketed due to obesity and related illnesses, an authoritarian government takes drastic measures. The overweight have their food purchases strictly monitored. They are provided with a Cal-Card which The time: Not long from now The place: Close to where you live. In a world where health and medical costs have skyrocketed due to obesity and related illnesses, an authoritarian government takes drastic measures. The overweight have their food purchases strictly monitored. They are provided with a Cal-Card which The time: Not long from now The place: Close to where you live. In a world where health and medical costs have skyrocketed due to obesity and related illnesses, an authoritarian government takes drastic measures. The overweight have their food purchases strictly monitored. They are provided with a Cal-Card which must be presented every time they buy groceries and other food. Attempting to purchase non approved items results in severve disiplinery measures. The overweight are given three attempts to loose and maintain a healthy weight. Failure to do so results in the overweight being rounded up and send to internment camps. Lynda Whittaker has just failed her third weight lose attempt. Inside obesity camp Clinton, the inmates are consigned to work for various multinational companies as virtual slaves with few rights and very little priveledges. Any infringement of camp rules result in summary execution. But apart from these draconian conditions, Lynda is about to stumble upon a secret. Something so frightening, so abhorent, it will push her to the brink of sanity. Michael J Elliott presents a frightening vision of a future society where to be thin is not only an aspiration, it could mean saving your life and where the overweight have become the 21st Century pariahs.

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Michael J. Elliott is an Australian author who has been writing since his early schooldays. His headmistress once described him as, "A second Alfred Hitchcock." He majored in Media Studies in College and wrote and directed short films, videos and radio ads. Michael has also written sketch comedy for Australian television. He lives in a bayside suburb in the State of Victoria. When not writing stories to chill readers he enjoys Golden Age Hollywood movies, reading, drawing, and cooking. He is also the illustrator for Claire Plaisted's series of childrens books, Girlie's Adventures. Michael is single but shares his life with his two cats, Charlie and Snaps.