Intergalactic Witness Excerpt
My hologram flickers to life in my own ship. It takes me three point five seconds to ground myself. Then I lock into my ship and do a scan. Four life-forms are in the medic bay, where I left them. Three others are by the landing bay
Materializing in front of them, I assess Orion now standing on his own feet- mostly. Part of him is still leaning against Reverend Shipping. Wayta stands a pace behind them, studying the now closed hull.
“Everyone get to seats and buckle down now,” I order. “I’m about to blast us off away from those pirates.”
Orion groans at the thought of movement, and almost completely collapses into Shipping.
Wayta goes to his other side and helps to support him as his clone to the cockpit.
While they make that journey, I materialize in front of the med-bay.
Rose is by Silas Shipping’s bedside, monitoring his still unconscious state. Killa and Nicholas are both awake and well, their oxygen masks are removed. The former has her head resting on the sealed door like she wants it to open. Nicholas is sitting weakly on the bed, staring at her.
“How can you just sit there?” Killa demands. “They need our help!”
Nicholas shrugs. “Because I’m tired, and if they needed our help so badly, they wouldn’t have locked us out.”
“We are fine,” I say.
Killa starts, and stumbles backward. Nicholas looks down at her in a dejected sort of way, like he meant to catch her, but couldn’t move his limbs.
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All is not perfect in paradise...
Also known as exile.Kristian Clark has survived purgatory. He and his children were kidnapped, his brain has been picked apart and put back together wrong, and he has done terrible things at the whims of other people. But now, at last, his family is back together and safe.That is, if the artificial world they are hiding on along with refugees from the world he burned is, actually, safe. And if his wife survives her pregnancy with her own mind intact. And if their children don't run him up a wall.
Between a handicapped child always reminding him of his failures, and a tombstone warning him he has no room to fail again, can Kristian really rise above it all and be the husband, father, and leader he needs to be? Or is the grief, trauma, and depression too strong? With access to every dimension, can he find one to finally make his home? Or is he doomed to purgatory as long as he lives?
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In honor of #GivingTuesday, which is right around the corner, not only will all proceeds from the sale of this book go to Human Coalition- to help save babies and families in need- which will always be the case, but also the first people who purchase a copy of Eden In-Between and email author.jes.drew@gmail.com with the invoice and their address will get an exclusive holographic sticker mailed to them in thanks.
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