GLAZE by Kim Curran

Author:Kim Curran [Curran, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Young Adult Science Fiction
Publisher: Kim Curran
Published: 2014-05-09T22:00:00+00:00

// HELP. //

‘So afraid!’ I cry, falling to my knees and curling up into a ball.

‘It’s your chip, it must be going wrong,’ Ethan says, taking my head in his hands and trying to look into my eyes. ‘Shut it off.’

I shake my head, wordless. Nothing can describe what these people are going through. What I’m going through alongside them. Feeling it all at once. And there’s no escape. Because that’s the thing that Logan never told me and I haven’t told Ethan. There’s no off switch.

‘I can’t!’ I scream, tears pouring down my cheeks.

‘We have to get you to Logan. We have to get that thing out of you.’

‘No,’ I say pushing him away from me and trying to get to my feet. But my legs won’t hold the weight of all the pain pressing down on me.

This isn’t my chip breaking. It’s the world.

‘Logan,’ Ethan says. ‘This is him. This is his message. November fifth, remember? The day he said he was going to send a message to the world. This is him!’

I can hardly see Ethan now through the thousands of images streaming past my eyes. I scrabble for a point to hold on to, a single pair of eyes to look through. Scenes flick past. My eyes ache they’re moving so fast.

‘Petri! Petri! Stay with me.’ I can just make out his voice through the screams of animal fear coming from everyone, everywhere.

I can actually hear them now. Screams floating up from the streets below. Ethan lets go of me and presses his hands against his ears, trying to block it out. He wraps his arms around his head and curls up into a ball, pressing his knees against his hands, anything to stop the noise.

I’m still frantically searching. Picking an image from the constant flow, deciding it means nothing to me, then throwing it away. Trying to find something that makes any kind of sense. I stop on one image.

What I see makes my whole body start to shake.

My mother, staring into our mirror at home, her eyes so wide I think they might burst out of her head. Blood pouring down her face, her bright green nails clawing dark tracks through her pale flesh.

Then everything goes black and I collapse to the floor.

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