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First Came Man
I took my usual route, travelling clockwise around the outer pathway, then counter clockwise around the inner pathway. When I reached the fountain at the centre of the main garden, I stopped to splash some water on my face, and that was where I saw it.
I was alone when I entered the Gardens, and I had seen no sign of any soul other than myself in all my time there. There was no way that somebody could have managed to enter the garden without me knowing about it, but through the flickering crystal air I saw a glimmer of gold, a flash of fire and then it was gone. I stood watching the spot where the apparition had been, but no matter how hard I peered into the darkness, there was no further sight of it.
I splashed some more water onto my face, then turned in the direction of home and began to run once more through the dense trees of the Gardens. I was nearing the gate — no more than a few paces away from it, in fact — when I was caught off guard by a sudden pain in my head. I was no stranger to dehydration, and tension headaches had been a simple fact of my life for all of my seventeen years, but this was something different. This pain went right to the very core of my head, as though my brain were being pierced by a long needle.
I stumbled, my knees no longer able to support my weight, and before I had even the chance to realise that the ground was hurtling up to collide with my face, I was unconscious.
Things have always been quiet and dull on Segesta, the fourth and smallest moon orbiting the planet Seia, but all that is about to change.
When Tasha McCabe sees a sudden flash of gold and flame while out running, she has no idea that she is about to stumble onto a secret that the moon has held for fourteen years.
She finds herself torn between revealing the secret for the good of those involved, or keeping it and having a normal life - a choice that could have disastrous consequences either way.
I was alone when I entered the Gardens, and I had seen no sign of any soul other than myself in all my time there. There was no way that somebody could have managed to enter the garden without me knowing about it, but through the flickering crystal air I saw a glimmer of gold, a flash of fire and then it was gone. I stood watching the spot where the apparition had been, but no matter how hard I peered into the darkness, there was no further sight of it.
I splashed some more water onto my face, then turned in the direction of home and began to run once more through the dense trees of the Gardens. I was nearing the gate — no more than a few paces away from it, in fact — when I was caught off guard by a sudden pain in my head. I was no stranger to dehydration, and tension headaches had been a simple fact of my life for all of my seventeen years, but this was something different. This pain went right to the very core of my head, as though my brain were being pierced by a long needle.
I stumbled, my knees no longer able to support my weight, and before I had even the chance to realise that the ground was hurtling up to collide with my face, I was unconscious.
Things have always been quiet and dull on Segesta, the fourth and smallest moon orbiting the planet Seia, but all that is about to change.
When Tasha McCabe sees a sudden flash of gold and flame while out running, she has no idea that she is about to stumble onto a secret that the moon has held for fourteen years.
She finds herself torn between revealing the secret for the good of those involved, or keeping it and having a normal life - a choice that could have disastrous consequences either way.
35 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 19, 2016
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July 13, 2016
This story has an entertaining premise, is well written and edited. The descriptive writing was a bit light for my taste, especially given the other-worldly setting. I would have liked to know just a little more about the world of Segesta and the people who inhabit it. Taff is the only character who gets substantial description, and the author manages to make the repeated point that he’s naked a nice comic counterpoint to the serious nature of the story. I’d guess other readers will probably like the snappy pace the brevity brings. Overall, recommended reading.
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