Releasing 6-16-16 “First”, a sci-fi for any age
Coming 6-16-16
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The teenage years can be stressful.
It is a time of a lot of “firsts”: first
crush; first date; first kiss, first heartbreak.
For Lyssa Brunner, life is pretty smooth.
Predictable, ordinary, safe.
Until one day it isn’t.
Until she discovers something about
her family that’s been withheld from
her “for her own good”.
Until she learns she’s not who she thought
she was and is hit with some “firsts” she
would never have imagined, and her life
takes a decided turn for the weird.
Follow her as she struggles to come to
terms with an existence that has changed
from normal to, irrevocably, “other”.
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Excerpts: Things did not necessarily happen in this order. But they happened.
The crush…
Lyssa was sixteen years old and loved
Tre’quan Havelock with all her heart.
She knew they were made for each other,
were soul mates fated to be together forever.
Tre’quan, on the other hand, didn’t know
Lyssa existed.
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The heartbreak…
…what she’d thought might be the beginning
of something good with a guy she’d been
dying to get to notice her for months was
actually nothing but another sorry illusion.
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The date…
…they enjoyed their movie – a sci-fi flick.
Ethan not only paid for the tickets but also
sprang for popcorn and sodas…
[Her father] was waiting in the parking
lot when the movie let out…
Thus went her first date. She’d enjoyed
herself in spite of the circumstances,
but hoped this didn’t indicate how dates
for the rest of her life were going to go.
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The kiss…
She lifted her face up to his, and he
leaned down and kissed her gently
on the lips. Her arms went around him
and she found herself eagerly kissing him
back, and for a brief moment – or for an
eternity – they were the only two people in
the universe. This was her true, first kiss.
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The crash…
She was shoveling food into her mouth
when there was a loud crash and a splintering
noise, as if something had slammed into the
house upstairs. The whole place shook
and the lights blinked out for a split second
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The weird…
From the floor, Lyssa watched in terror
as her mother changed, becoming taller,
bulkier, her color darkening until she was
blue with thin, diagonal silver stripes. Her
larger body ripped through her clothing, and
the…thing…that she was gripping gave
another of its piercing, almost ultrasonic
shrieks, trying to wrench loose.
