“Stop. Halt. Don’t move.” Aran’s shoulders dropped, defeated. He heard the forceful instructions clearly and, obeying the order, he froze. He was now staring down the nozzle of what looked like a laser gun, and a Cynocast, dressed in sleek metallic armor, was positioned behind it. Aran had seen the laser weapon in use before, but only from a distance when he’d stumbled across a working party of Regulators and Cynocasts. The rebellious Cynocasts hadn’t lived. With the laser aimed at him, he had nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Taking a steady intake of air, he drew in what he thought would be his last breath. Nineteen wasn’t too bad an age to die, was it? He’d survived longer than most humans since the Regulators had migrated from their native planet and begun a systematic annihilation of all the inhabited continents on Earth. Earth, as Aran had known it, a planet he’d once freely explored and loved, was no longer the same. The Regulators, intent on dominating the solar system, if not the galaxy, were now methodically wiping out Earth’s civilizations. Where houses and soaring skyscrapers had once stood proud and strong, there was now only a flattened landscape of twisted iron girders and distorted blocks of stonework rubble. All around was a panoramic view of barren, desolate terrain.
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With several Young Adult romance stories still in the Work-In-Progress phase, I've got a heap of things to do in the coming year, yet panic is beginning to set in as I'm not sure if deadlines are going to be reached or if anything is going to be achieved. Here's hoping...
And for those of you with plans, (be it reading the To-Be-Read bucket list or writing that ever-elusive best seller), I'm wishing you all a happy ending for the 'old' year and a great start for the 'new' one. Lots of love, Eliza Xxx |
Eliza DouglasYoung Adult / Teen Archives
April 2024
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