WIP : Opening page
I’m trying something new on the blog now, sharing early drafts from one of my two works in progress (WIP). This first sample is literally the opening page for a novel which is currently at 25k words covering the first five chapters.
Can you imagine being born a god? Not the One God, but a god; able to assume an aspect and wield attributes over man and nature. Of course, you can’t, because gods aren’t born, they are made. This is my story.
— from “Divine Discourses – Introduction”
I watched the man on the monitor, reading in his lavishly furnished apartment. Part of me was resentful. The view from his couch could have been a master’s painting with its fiery orange and pinks behind the spires of the city with just a hint of blue on the horizon from the ocean. Millions would kill for the view alone, but we had showered more than money on the home of the man I watched. His apartment had only the best. Modern appliances in stainless steel; clean white cabinets floating above the dark grey granite countertops; a genuine leather couch and matching chairs. The program had literally spared no expense in ensuring his comfort.
Of course, many would say he deserved such creature comforts. Some would argue. Personally, I was caught in the middle, but it did not hurt myself or the project to provide such opulence to the program’s heroes. The fact was that giving them apartments we owned and controlled gave us certain advantages, including this vid feed allowing unobtrusive observation by a phalanx of psychologist and behavioral experts. If our six heroes had an observable difference from the others in the program, we had to learn what it was.
I was almost ready to ask what I was looking for when the man on the monitor stood and threw the reading tablet from him to smash against the sleek fireplace next to the doors to his private balcony. The violence of his action was shockingly unexpected.
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