Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron
Author:Peter Cawdron [Cawdron, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N13
Published: 2016-03-12T05:00:00+00:00
Casey
ââstill largely considered by the government as a con perpetrated on a gullible public. Conspiracy theories abound as to who could have orchestrated a planetary-wide hoax, but most scientists maintain The Dream was nothing more than a glitch in the system, a natural electromagnetic phenomenon that induced a common sensation in our minds while we were sleepingâat the point we were most susceptible to suggestion.â
Iâm groggy. The voices Iâm hearing are high-pitched, coming from a small speaker rather than someone talking in the room. I open my eyes, but my sight is a blur.
âSort of like releasing laughing gas at a party,â a woman says.
A man says, âIf I didnât know better, Iâd say one of the villains from Batman was behind all this.â
âYou mean the Joker?â
âWell, the jokeâs on us.â
Iâm lying on a hospital bed with a thin sheet draped over me. I try to move, but I canâtânot easily. My motion is coarse and ungainly. I feel stiff. The muscles in my back ache, while my head is pounding. Blood throbs behind my eyes, pulsating inside my skull.
One blink leads to another. Each blink lasts progressively longer, cloaking me in darkness.
âJay,â a familiar voice calls out. âJAY!â
âCaseââ I whisper, trying to respond to him by name, but I canât speak. My mouth is dry. My tongue is swollen. Somethingâs stuck to my faceâa tube feeding up my nose and down the back of my throat. I try to sit up, but another blink arrives and darkness descends.
Iâm not sure how long I sleep, but when I wake, itâs night. Thereâs a chill in the air, coming from a vent directly over my bed. Someoneâs covered me with a blanket, keeping me warm. My head rests on a pillow. Although my sightâs fuzzy, Iâm staring out a window. Slowly, my eyes start to focus.
Rain lashes the glass, coming in waves. This isnât the soft, soothing rain I woke to this morning. This morning? Is it still Saturday? The trees outside sway, rocking with the surge of the storm. Lightning illuminates the night, racing through the clouds before disappearing from view. Iâm not sure how many seconds pass until the thunder rolls around me, but the heart of the storm is miles away.
Casey is asleep on an armchair beside the window.
âHââ I say, attempting a âHey,â but not quite making it. Casey doesnât move. I raise my left arm, reaching for him. My arm moves in a peculiar manner, rising from the shoulder in a stiff motion rather than bending at the elbow and wrist as I expect. Itâs as though I have a cast over my shoulder and arm, but thereâs nothing beyond a flimsy hospital gown.
My breathing is labored, rasping. A medical mask has been slipped over my face to help me breathe, only itâs askew, sitting partly across the bridge of my nose, missing one corner of my lips. Oxygen hisses softly from a plastic tube feeding into the mask. I try to straighten the mask, but my right arm doesnât move.
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Never by Ken Follett(2841)
Fairy Tale by Stephen King(2035)
Will by Will Smith(1989)
Reminders of Him: A Novel by Colleen Hoover(1843)
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr(1414)
The Becoming by Nora Roberts(1306)
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry(1288)
A Short History of War by Jeremy Black(1287)
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon(1217)
515945210 by Unknown(1200)
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson(1196)
The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino(1192)
443319537 by Unknown(1062)
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult(1041)
Works by Richard Wright(1008)
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik(993)
The 1619 Project by Unknown(979)
472244821 by Unknown(977)
Going There by Katie Couric(973)