The End of Free Will

“You’re turning them into robots.” That’s what the principal said, and perhaps she was right. But what choice did Karin have? The way they looked at her, she knew, sooner or later they would come after her, these kids who had grown up on a steady diet of drugs and violence. Assaults by the teenage thugs that roamed the halls at Franklin High were now so common they had become second page news. But Karin had no intention of becoming just another grisly anecdote in the campus annals, not if she could help it. Besides, well-behaved robots trumped vicious hoodlums every time. But she had to get to them before they got to her, so she fought back with the only weapon she had…memes.