Collector Ship by Adam Moon

Author:Adam Moon [Moon, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Gealach Publishing
Published: 2015-06-10T06:00:00+00:00

Memories

His dreams were odd, like they were being dreamt by a stranger. They were so vivid and yet so foreign. When he woke up he was sobbing like a child. His throat was raw and his eyes burned but for the first time in recent memory, he felt whole. And then memories came crashing back, confusing and enlightening him at once.

Stacey looked into his eyes and asked, “Did it work?”

He couldn’t answer her. His emotions were raw and untethered. He felt like he could break into a million pieces. He remembered training, and sure enough, Murphy was right. He had volunteered for it, even the tortures and memory modifications. But somewhere along the way, he’d concocted a bizarre theory that had nothing to do with reality. In his crazed, memory wiped mind, he was a prisoner being forced to do the bidding of hidden tormentors. But the reality was that in the beginning he was utterly ecstatic about the program. And what made it even better was that his dad had developed the program and personally ran it. His dad was Murphy. And the woman looking into his eyes with such pity in her own was his younger sister, Stacey. It made perfect sense that Stacey and Murphy were so angry with him. They’d been worried sick when he ran off.

He might have been upset that his father had subjected him to the horrors of the program except that he now remembered just how vehemently his dad had tried to talk him out of it. And once he insisted on joining, his little sister followed right after him.

When he tried to coerce memories of his mom forth he suddenly realized why his father had always kept them so close to him. They had such a tight bond because his mom had died of breast cancer when he was very young. His dad, being a military man, had no choice but to drag him and his sister with him wherever he went. And in exposing them to a military lifestyle, he’d molded them into soldiers before they’d even grown old enough to enlist. David became a Ranger and Stacey joined the Marines.

And then the implanted memories washed over him. They didn’t affect him the way his buried memories did, though, probably because they felt so alien.

There were exactly thirty six aliens already on the ship when it tried to abduct him, and he had specs on all of them. They were all dangerous but some of them more so than others.

He blurted out, “Get me a pen and paper. I’m going to list the aliens according to their threat level.”

Stacey gave him a little pad with the logo of the hotel on it and a pen. She picked up her now cold coffee and was about to take her first drink of it when David grabbed her arm and slowly pried the cup from her. He said, “This might be poisoned.” He splashed the contents on the sidewalk outside the door.

Stacey

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