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44 – AnElephantCant
Sian awoke with not only a blinding headache, but with her whole body feeling as though it had been trampled by a herd of stampeding wildebeest.
She raised her head slowly and found that she was in what appeared to be a windowless dungeon.
The only light came from a small aperture in the damp rock high overhead.
She stumbled to her feet, only to find she was chained by her ankle to a metal ring set in the floor.
“Hello!” she called loudly, “Is anyone there?”
Groans came from the darkness.
“Who is there?” she cried, “Speak to me!”
She stared in amazement as first Bethany and then Marci staggered out of the gloom, both trailing chains from their ankles.
“What happened … Where are we … How did we get here?”
The sisters all started asking questions at once, but none of them had any answers.
Nor could they recall exactly where they had been or what they were doing immediately before they wakened here.
“All in good time” came Janosc’s voice from the blackest corner.
He strolled into sight, gleamingly smart, smiling confidently.
“Please, tidy yourselves up, you look awful”, he grinned at the girls, “You will want to look your best, won’t you?”
Again the girls fired questions all at once.
“Where are we … Our best for what ….” and, from Marci, “Where is our father?”
“He is being prepared”, answered Janosc.
“Prepared for what?”
“After what happened? He is being prepared for the ceremony, of course!”
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Parts One – Forty Click Here
Part Forty-One – Vanessa Chapman
Part Forty-Two – Susan Rocan
Part Forty-Three – Kate Johnson
Part Forty-Four – An Elephant Can’t
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I received a wonderful review yesterday for my solo science fiction collection, A Legacy of Stars (DTF Publications/Dark Quest Books). It made my day, but it came with something of a mystery, which I’ll quote here:
Where is the mystery, do you ask? See…there are two first contact stories in the collection. Now I could just ask the reviewer which one he thought was the cleverest, but where is the fun in that? I say this calls for a contest.
First of all, Congrats to last week’s winner: J.K.Ford
I’m tired.
Why are you tired?
Hi.
He’s a U.S. Marshall with the Fugitive Task Force for the northern district of Illinois. Tess left Chicago because the criminal justice system gave her no choice. Now she’s on the run from ghosts of misdeeds past—both hers and Shelby’s.
Is that supposed to sound even remotely interesting to me? I just got back from Texas, and it was nothing like that. It was far more interesting. Stupid book.
