A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes

Author:Nadine Brandes [Brandes, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Christian Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Christian Fiction, Futuristic, Science Fiction, Dystopian
ISBN: 9781621840305
Amazon: B00NDAJBTU
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
Published: 2014-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

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000.154.20.13.23

My biography is published.

The announcement stands like a resolute stamp of finality four scrolls down The Daily Hemisphere.

Author Skelley Chase, best known for riveting biographies like Blood Numbers and Sweeping Death’s Doorstep, stunned the world with his newest release, A Time to Die, about a Radical girl who was sent across the Wall and still lives.

My story is known. I can’t erase it. According to the date at the top of the article, it’s been known for two days already. A shiver sweeps down my body and my stomach coils like a snake in a knot. Skelley Chase published it early. Is Reid still safe?

I’m taken back to the East with a single inhale. Scenes flutter through my mind like a flip book: the library displaying my book as the newest biography, the Lead Enforcer seething about my accusations against the justice system, Trevor Rain realizing he unknowingly supported and funded Skelley Chase’s plot, Reid being questioned about his Clock . . . maybe even denied a job or hospital care.

I think of the bullies—Dusten Grunt chanting “Empty Numbers”. When he reads my biography (if he can read), will he think I’m desperate or brave? Which do I think I am?

Mother’s voice echoes through my mind: Impulsive.

I am impulsive. She was right. My impulse led to where I am. But so did God. It all connects to my prayer on the hospital floor.

The scenes sweep out of my mind like dust under a rug, brooding until they are unearthed later. My present surroundings return with one slow blink in a swirl of green cattails.

I stand alone in the Dregs, holding The Daily Hemisphere with my right hand. My pack hangs over my left shoulder and the NAB rests by my feet underwater—dropped and abandoned in the flurry of nerves.

Jude is a short speck wading through green water far ahead. He doesn’t realize I stopped. Irrational anger clenches my throat. I don’t yell for him. Why should I call him? He doesn’t seem to care if I’m left behind.

I scan the next paragraph of the article, unable to spur my legs into forward motion yet. My chest feels empty except for my heart pounding like a bell clapper.

Told with nuggets from her point of view, A Time to Die introduces us to Parvin Blackwater, a girl from a Low City with a bland past except for the secret she and her twin brother kept from the world.

My stomach lurches at the sight of my name on screen.

Born with a third brother as an unexpected set of triplets, the Blackwater children outnumbered the required two Clocks in the household at birth. After one Clock zeroed-out, taking a triplet with it, Parvin and her brother remained half-Radical, never knowing to whom the remaining Clock belonged.

This time out, Skelley Chase transcends his previous pattern of biographying by following Parvin Blackwater’s continuing story. He will offer the new biography to fans in X-book form with weekly installments following her miraculous survival on the West side of the Wall, including emotigraphs and journal entries.

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