Turn to Burn

Each night, the seventeen-year-old stalks the streets of Toronto with her father, hunting raitgur—alien land squids that sling through shadows infecting the most vulnerable. To destroy them, her father uses Nike’s fingers as the source to ignite his Burner fire.

Nike resents every flicker of flame. But she lost her mother and sister to the raitgur infections. This is personal.

So are fingers.

Even as the population’s infections climb, her father’s ability to use Nike is guttering. The burns are as bad as their relationship, and Nike wonders how much more she can take. But maybe she doesn’t have to. Maybe it’s her TURN TO BURN.