First Encounter

by Connie Cockrell

Seventeen years ago, the brown rain started falling without explanation, without excuse. It killed everything it touched.

Then, after four years of death and destruction, it stopped just as inexplicably.

Now Alyssa and Kyra, two young women from a surviving community, are sent out into a desolate world to look for other survivors. Between Alyssa’s unique power and Kyra’s roguish skills, they might just succeed. But what they end up finding in the outside world, despite its veneer of civility, may be slightly less human than they had been expecting.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 2, 2014

About the author

A 20-year Air Force career, time as a manager at a computer operations company, wife, mother, sister and volunteer, provides a rich background for Connie Cockrell’s story-telling.

Cockrell grew up in upstate NY, just outside of Gloversville, NY before she joined the military at age 18. Having lived in Europe, Great Britain, and several places around the United States, she now lives in Payson, AZ with her husband: hiking, gardening, and playing bunko. She writes about whatever comes into her head so her books could be in any genre. She's published sixteen books so far, has been included in five different anthologies and been published on EveryDayStories.com and FrontierTales.com. Connie's always on the lookout for a good story idea. Beware, you may be the next one.

She can be found at www.conniesrandomthoughts.com or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/ConniesRando... or on Twitter at: @ConnieCockrell or on Amazon at amazon.com/author/conniecockrell

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting story. Two young women leave the seclusion of the community they were raised in in order to heal the world. One girl is a healer; the other her protector. The world has been deluged with brown rain for seventeen years, leaving the plants covered in brown sludge poisonous sludge. Surviving communities have lived on the poor quality vegetation that they were able to raise themselves.
Annoyingly, they were a number of odd sentence structures.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this well written end of the world tale! Something a little different, brown rain! A lovely story in one of my favourite genre! I will look for more work by this writer & do recommend her stories!

[Marie Fasano · Rating 4 out of 5]

A new world

Alyssa and Lyra are likable young women off on an adventure. New ideas to ponder on a new world order