WRITING AT THE EDGE OF THE UNSPOKEN
Stories about what people endure — and what systems take.
Ripley Crow writes dark, character-driven fiction and poetry about loyalty, grief, power, and the courage it takes to question what we're told.
Minnesota writer YA medical suspense Poetry
A YA MEDICAL SUSPENSE NOVEL SET IN 1999
What They Took
The line between treatment and exploitation is thinner than anyone wants to believe.
Seventeen-year-old Jess Kincaid never planned to move to Coleville in the middle of her junior year. She certainly never planned to fall for Bryan Douglass and become close to his identical twin, Myron.
But when complications from Myron's football injury draw the boys back to the Medical Researchers’ Association, Jess follows them into a world of locked floors, vague consent forms, and experiments disguised as care.
As the procedures become more invasive, Jess must decide how far she'll go to protect the twins—even when the system around them has already decided what they are worth.
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Ripley Crow is a Minnesota writer, published poet, and educator.
Writing across poetry and young adult suspense, Crow explores grief, moral uncertainty, and the systems that shape who is protected—and who is asked to sacrifice.
In What They Took, that fascination with power and consequence becomes a dark, emotionally charged story about two brothers, one girl, and the institution that draws them in.
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