So this is really scary and exciting to be sharing this but here is the prelude and part of the first chapter of the book I just finished. I would love feedback good and bad. Thanks for reading!
Prelude
It can
only take one moment, a minute or even a single second to shift your whole life
forever. To have everything you ever believed in, or thought you were living
for to get ripped away from you like a hurricane tearing away everything in
sight. Just gone. I didn’t know that my life was going to have more than one of
these moments. That life seemed to keep throwing things at me, to continue to
try and knock me off balance. Eighteen years of confusion, of unanswered
questions, of going through the motions and then it hit me. The hurricane I
never saw coming. Never would I have been able to foreshadow these events,
these moments, these minutes that brought me here; to him, to them and to
myself.
Chapter One
The wind whipped my dark blonde hair across my face as I stood
on the very top of the giant red bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge to be exact.
With my eyes closed I took a deep breath and listened. I could hear the cars
whooshing by far below me, even further, the sound of the water hitting the
rocks in the distant, the seagulls crying out to each other and large crate
ships' billowing horns.
I felt the pull then.
The buzz of adrenaline started to course through my veins as my body reacted to
what I was about to do. I opened my eyes to see
the sunset sky splashing orange and yellow hues into the scene. I smiled to
myself, stretched out my arms and let my body fall.
I heard a scream further away and horns honking at me as I fell though the
fog. The pull grew harder as I drew closer to the water below, gravity pulled
against me as I fell. It always surprised me at how fast I got to the bottom. Right
before I hit I let the pull grab me whole, away from the water which could have
easy stole my life if I let it, and it threw me into the between-world filled with
screams.
They were louder than I’d ever heard them but I knew not to
hesitate. The pull kept going just as fast and threw me where I needed to be. It was
all still as I open my eyes and stared at myself in the mirror of my bathroom.
It always took a minute to shake off the fear of the screams. To pass through the world in between, a place in which I had no knowledge of.
I am a teleported or that is what I call it. I have no other
word to describe it because I have never had anyone else to ask about it...
Maddie this is so good! It totally grabs the readers attention, I love it!
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Ariele. It left me wanting to read more and I love the description you give of her surroundings. I was able to get a great picture and feel of what's going on in her surroundings. :) Thank you for the preview, I can't wait to read more!
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