Jen Heller

Sometime in the 1990s...

Jen Heller was a top reporter for Network 23 when a tragic motorcycle accident left her clinging to life. Fearing the network may lose its most popular show, a quick-thinking employee used a computer program to create a digital copy of Jen’s brain complete with all her memories, thoughts, and opinions up to the time of the accident. Sadly, Jen passed away, but fortunately for the network, the digital copy could do everything Jen did (and it didn’t expect a salary).

What the network didn’t anticipate was that the digital Jen would soon develop a mind of her own and refuse to obey their commands. She began interrupting their programming with angry diatribes condemning the government, the media, the healthcare industry, and other giant corporations. Ratings were higher than ever, but the network feared a backlash from their corporate overlords.

Despite numerous attempts to re-program her, Jen continued to act out, constantly popping up to criticize commercials, talk shows, reality shows, and music videos (or the distinct lack thereof) with her biting rhetoric. So the network secured her program in a Compaq computer, which they kept in a warehouse in New Jersey.

At some point—no one’s really sure when—the Compaq began to type on its own, writing disturbing horror and sci-fi stories under Jen’s name. Unsettled warehouse workers locked it away in a closet, but not before printing some of the stories to share with their friends.

Eventually, these stories made their way onto the Internet, and now four of them are available to buy.

Perfect Part I: The Industry

Science Fiction

In the year 199X, a corrupt, tyrannical government genetically engineers people into “perfect” superhumans to fight their endless wars for world domination. The few who aren’t genetically engineered are called “imperfects,” treated like animals, forbidden to speak, and used as test subjects in military experiments. Anyone who opposes the government is sent to The Industry, a massive prison where innocent people are enslaved and tortured.

Carmen is a genetically engineered perfect person raised by Debbie, her abusive foster mother who’s obsessed with destroying The Industry. After Debbie is killed by the Industry’s guards, Carmen is determined to take over her mission. When she meets April, an imperfect and former government guinea pig, they form an unlikely friendship and work together to take down The Industry once and for all.

Perfect Part II: The Revolution

Science Fiction

Two years after Carmen and April destroyed The Industry, Carmen is helping a group of rebels planning to overthrow the oppressive government. When a private investigator sends Carmen to a mysterious address to meet her long lost parents, she meets a ghost from her past who could be the secret weapon that helps the rebels succeed or the weapon of their total destruction.

Perfect Part III: The Regressives

Perfect Part IV: The Compliant

Science Fiction

After a year of de-programming with Bill, April now lives in a remote mountain town where people have been mysteriously disappearing. Meanwhile, Dr. Tragg, a former government scientist, has devised a plan to control the world by altering people’s brains to make them “compliant.” When April finds out about Tragg’s plot, she teams up with Carmen, Bill, and a local named Bryce to stop him before he can turn the whole country into mindless drones.