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Welcome to The Wormhole and my day on the tour.
It is my pleasure to feature Beck Sherman and Revamp.
Beck Sherman was born and raised in Massachusetts, studied undergrad at Syracuse University, has a master’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Westminster, London, and when not writing, enjoys exploring abandoned insane asylums and photo-documenting the things that go bump in the night, when they’re kind enough to pose.
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FOR THREE DAYS, IT WAS DARK.
News reporters scrambled. This was the biggest story to come along in weeks.
They called it a blackout.
The last one was in New York City in 2003, but this one was different, special, because the grids in six major cities across the country had been fried, kaput, see-you-next-Sunday. Everyone with some jurisdiction blamed each other, and when there was no one left to blame, terrorism rode in on its gallant steed.
It was the media’s fault. They were so busy stuffing fanatical Muslims with a penchant for Allah and decapitations down the American citizen’s throat, that they never saw it coming. I guess I shouldn’t be too hard on them.
They were partially right.
It was terror after all, but a whole new kind. And when the lights came back on, things had changed.
The dark had brought us visitors.
...an excerpt...
JUMPING WAS A NO-BRAINER.
With bad guys at her front, more at her back, and a
screaming baby giving away her exact location at any given moment, making that
jump was the easiest decision of her life.
Seven approached it fast like a bullet. Ninety-six screamed
bloody murder. Maybe it understood what was coming, but Seven knew the baby
would thank her when it was old enough to understand. She wouldn’t exaggerate
the story in the retelling; she needn’t have to.
They had taken that narrow stretch of hallway, which led
to another hallway, and a storage room, and a loading dock stacked with
bundles, and a drop of indeterminable height. Outside, a large truck idled with
its open back pulled up to the dock. Seven felt the night air on her skin.
Stars winked in the fast approaching sky, as if to say, “This is it, kid.
You’re home free.”
Her feet left the edge of the loading dock. The pavement
met her fast.
Seven’s ankle twisted on the landing, and she fell to one
knee. The momentum dragged her along the blacktop. Rocks and broken glass
lodged in her skin. The pain was excruciating, but what was chasing her was far
worse. She struggled to her feet and set her sights on the truck’s open driver
door. She could hear a tinny version of a Bee Gees song playing over the radio,
which meant one thing:
Keys in the ignition.
She scurried forward, dragging her bad leg behind her.
The inside of the cab smelled like vanilla and rubber. She tightened her
one-armed hug of the baby, tossed the letter opener onto the passenger seat,
and hoisted her and Number 96 up and in with one free hand.
Next to her, the side-view mirror shattered.
She slammed the door and reached for the ignition. The
Bee Gees song ended, and a radio DJ came on to send a shout-out to his girl
Marcy in Culver City .
And I hope my night grooves got you dancing.
Seven turned the key and pressed the gas pedal to the
floor. Her twisted mess of an ankle protested with a searing pain that caused
her vision to stutter. She held the wriggling baby tightly in the crook of her
left arm and gripped the steering wheel with her right hand. A dart whizzed by
her ear and hit the dashboard. Angry shouts were drowned out by engine noise as
truck, baby, and Seven screeched forward into the night.
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Giveaway!
2 print copies of Revamp tour wide ~ Open to US Shipping
2 comments:
This sounds like a page turner!
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This sounds so good! Thanks for reviewing and for the giveaway!
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