The Cuckoo Man

Nathaniel Blake wants to beat the system. The problem is he is part of that system, he is a Cuckoo Man. Working as a Reassignment Officer at the Midland regional offices of the Department for Reassignment and Bonding, a job that he utterly despises, he is the person that relocates children to their state selected parents. Reassignment, part of the process which awards parenthood and all of its associated privileges to these chosen parents, has been commonplace for nearly eighty years within what is truly a ‘nanny state’. In a society divided into the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ a Lawson Integer (LI) value is everything, the system gives you a value, a worth, and rewards you accordingly. But now Sarah Blake, wife of this Cuckoo Man, is pregnant, it is his time to suffer the anguish of reassignment. A chilling look into a future that might be as modern youth becomes ever more empowered and the society which has enabled the young to control their elders through fear and social pressure fails to act.