142 Results in the "Burned Cover" category
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Chapter
01 – Leah Walker
Leah Walker moved in a daze. She couldn’t concentrate on what she was doing. Her morning shower went long, but her mind refused to work. She couldn’t think. A fuzzy static settled in between her ears and wouldn’t leave. The kids got off to school on their own. Leah didn’t make it out of the shower in any reasonable time. She stayed under the water, staring at the wall, well past when the water ran cold. A sudden shiver brought her back to reality, but only just. Enough to towel off and get…-
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Chapter
01 – Flipping the Narrative
“I’m standing here live in Millennium Park, where crowds have gathered behind police barricades around The Bean. This is one of several locations in Chicago and its surrounding area where what can only be described as enormous, metallic-feathered birds have taken up a perch.” Erika paused, dropping a heavy weight, as she watched the camera pan off the reporter. The curved chrome of The Bean reflected dozens of people gathered around the artistic sculpture, all holding phones up to record. As the…-
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Chapter
01 – Celebrations
Glasses clinked together, cheers echoed around the fancy bar, laughter rang out, and Rick sat with his shoulders hunched and a cardboard tube clutched on his lap. He felt sick. It wasn’t the alcohol—he wasn’t drinking anything but a plain, old-fashioned Coke tonight. He usually avoided drinking in public, maybe having one single light drink, but no more. Tonight was no different, not even with everyone around him in a celebratory mood. The Adjustment stood on a table, knocking aside plates of…-
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Chapter
01 – A Dazed Awakening
Erika rolled over and puked straight onto the floor for her first conscious action. The motion of rolling made her head swim and warble, intensifying the welling nausea in her stomach. She vomited again. The second time seemed to help a little, as if her nausea splattered over the old-fashioned tiles on the floor just as much as everything else in her stomach did. Slowly, Erika sat upright, trying to keep from jostling her poor, sick mind. That proved to be a mistake. Spikes of pain coursed…-
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