Sneak Peek

I'm going as fast as I can because I'm juggling a few different things at the moment, but here's a sneak peek of the next part of Mercy's story. Let me know if you like it:

My memory is a cracked and treacherous thing, but I remember—

The silence of thousands as the sun went dark above the Andaman Sea and an aurora flamed across the hot, noon day sky in vivid bands of red and green. The ground had begun to shake beneath our feet—as fluid as the skin of some vast, waking animal. And people fell to the earth as if it were ending. Then the screaming began.

And, as Ryan and I crossed the equator, chasing the heat, chasing life, I remember—

The evening sky suddenly peppered with light: hard, bright flashes filling the horizon from end to end. One after another, pop, pop, pop, high overhead as if the stars themselves were exploding. Cars, buses, people—everything stopping to see, to wonder at the signs.