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Leapling
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Young Adult Romantic Fantasy
Fifteen-year-old Evey Jones is a Leapling — born on the leap day in a leap year. As she approaches her sixteenth birthday, she fills her journal with the strange and deadly things that have happened to her every February 29th, including her encounter with a Shadow, a terrifying creature haunting her dreams since she was a little girl. As she faces her fears, Evey finally finds out why she’s been plagued with near-death experiences every Leap Year, and discovers the role she's expected to play when an alien race puts into action their plan for the birth of a whole new world on Earth — that is, if she’ll except her destiny and Adam, the alien prince who comes along with the deal.
Young Adult Romantic Fantasy
Fifteen-year-old Evey Jones is a Leapling — born on the leap day in a leap year. As she approaches her sixteenth birthday, she fills her journal with the strange and deadly things that have happened to her every February 29th, including her encounter with a Shadow, a terrifying creature haunting her dreams since she was a little girl. As she faces her fears, Evey finally finds out why she’s been plagued with near-death experiences every Leap Year, and discovers the role she's expected to play when an alien race puts into action their plan for the birth of a whole new world on Earth — that is, if she’ll except her destiny and Adam, the alien prince who comes along with the deal.
36 pages, ebook
First published March 28, 2012
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September 3, 2013
Lisa Forget has created a story that chronicles the days most of us do not usually give a second, let alone third or fourth thought to...Children born on February 29th...People called LEAPLINGS.
In this tale, Ms. Forget allows us to hitch hike through the life of one Leapling, via her diary as she details the events surrounding her near-fatal birth onwards. Every four years, as her ACTUAL birthday comes around, her diary documents near-fatal "accidents."
Haunted by dreams of terrible things, she fears for her future...until...on the brink of her sixteenth birthday...
This is a brilliantly contrived Romantic Fantasy short that introduces concepts many of us who look into the skies at all the zillions of stars and KNOW deep in our marrow, we are not alone, already believe in.
LEAPLING...FIVE STARS for creativity, warmth, and not so much Science Fiction as Science Probability.
Well Done, Ms. Forget!
In this tale, Ms. Forget allows us to hitch hike through the life of one Leapling, via her diary as she details the events surrounding her near-fatal birth onwards. Every four years, as her ACTUAL birthday comes around, her diary documents near-fatal "accidents."
Haunted by dreams of terrible things, she fears for her future...until...on the brink of her sixteenth birthday...
This is a brilliantly contrived Romantic Fantasy short that introduces concepts many of us who look into the skies at all the zillions of stars and KNOW deep in our marrow, we are not alone, already believe in.
LEAPLING...FIVE STARS for creativity, warmth, and not so much Science Fiction as Science Probability.
Well Done, Ms. Forget!
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