Origins

by Greg Krojac

Eclipse was born deaf and mute in the Blue City on planet Duoterra in the Twinsol System. Doctors have never been able to find a physical reason why she can't hear or speak but she's a smart kid and never lets her oral and auditory deficiencies get in the way of communicating with the outside world.At the age of six orbits, an unfortunate telepathic incident at a doctor's appointment results in her having to leave the Blue City for her own safety. If she stays, she risks being arrested, experimented upon, or even killed. Her parents take her to the desert where she is raised by a community of similarly exiled telepaths until, at the age of twenty orbits, something happens that will change her life forever and draws her into the fight against The Authority, who rule the Blue City with an iron fist and would like nothing more than to wipe out telepaths, once and for all.

101 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 4, 2022

About the author

I started writing about a recent trauma that I'd experienced in the hope that it would prove therapeutic. It didn't. However, I did discover that I enjoyed writing. I wrote an (unpublished) contemporary thriller but realised that i should perhaps be writing science fiction stories instead. I've always had a passion for science fiction, ever since I used to watch the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell as the first Doctor. I don't believe I watched it from behind the sofa (as science fiction lore would have us believe was the practice of anyone under ten years of age) although I'm sure a couple of episodes probably had me watching through my fingers.

Eight years later, I've penned ten novels, two novellas, and five short stories.

My writing philosophy is that a story should be as long or as short as it needs to be. I refuse to pad my stories out just to reach an arbitrary word count. In my opinion, to do so would be dishonest and disrespectful to myself, the story and - above all - the reader.

​I share my life with Eliene (a successful amateur distance runner), our cat, Tabitha, our dog, Sophie, and another cat, Jess, who kept invading our house until we let her stay. I'm also an avid Tottenham Hotspur fan (nothing comes between me and my TV when they're playing).