Children Of The Dust Circuit

🤖 Story Pitch: CHILDREN OF THE DUST CIRCUIT

Tagline: In a world of rust and ash, hope runs on borrowed time — and the children are the only ones fast enough to chase it.

🌆 Short Summary:
The sun doesn’t rise anymore. Not truly. It flickers dimly behind a haze of ash and silicon, a tired, dying star trying to push through a sky gone sour. In Sector Nine, every day starts the same: static humming through the dust-heavy air, turbines groaning to life, shaking grit loose from battered rooftops.

Kael knows the rhythm by heart. He’s learned to slip from his cot before the shift horns wail, before the concrete streets begin to seethe with heat, before the Circuit, a sprawling labyrinth of wires, vents, and ancient machinery, wakes hungry for new runners.

Through the dormitory filled with oil-smudged, sleeping children, he pauses to touch his sister Luma’s shoulder. Just enough to feel the warm rise and fall of her breath, to remember what he’s doing this for.

Because today is Kael’s first solo run.
Out there, the Circuit promises survival, meager rations, and another day lived. But also the chance to glimpse the world beyond Sector Nine — and maybe even dream of something more than rust and dust.

💀 Why authors will love to finish this novel:

⚙️ A stark, vividly imagined world that merges post-apocalyptic grit with the haunting vulnerability of children forced into roles too big for their small hands.

🌙 Offers endless directions: rebellion against the system, hidden truths about what keeps the Circuit alive, or even a dangerous bond with something inhuman lurking beyond the turbines.

🌆 Perfect for fans of The Maze Runner, Mortal Engines, or Wool — stories that explore hope and survival under crushing, mechanical skies.

📚 Starter package includes:

✔️ A powerfully atmospheric first chapter that draws readers instantly into the bleak beauty of Sector Nine and the fragile bond between Kael and Luma.

✔️ Character insights, thematic sparks (sacrifice vs. survival, childhood stolen by necessity, the thin wire of hope running through it all), and world-building prompts to help authors grow the story in any direction.

✔️ Entirely yours to expand into a gritty, heart-wrenching sci-fi novel under your own name.

💷 Price: £49.99