Shattered Bones - Excerpt 8 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – Flash Flood
Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.
Excerpt 8
Just as it had come the flood receded in a flash. The water abated, flowing down stream and soaking into the ground and he collapsed on his back gasping. For a moment he lay there feeling wild joy and gratitude at being alive as his thoughts reformed into words and reason. But movement in the hollow of a dancing Douglas-fir caught his attention and his eyes struggled to focus on a dark form in a darker space. It was a crow he realized, and it was staring at something just below him in avid fascination. Curious Drake lifted and followed the direction of the corvid’s gaze.
At first his mind simply refused to process what he was seeing and focused on the fact that the flood had taken the shirt he had had wrapped around his leg as well as his pants leaving him in his tighty-whiteys. Annoyance hit him as he factored having to avoid Abuelita into his return plans. Then the pain hit him in a wave every bit as overwhelming as the flood and threatened to black him out. He fought against the darkness, a rough old voice urging him to stay awake and face the bull. Shaking his head he stared grimly at his shattered and lacerated leg. While one was merely cut and scraped from debris the already injured limb had clearly been broken.
“Well, Em always did want to know what a compound fracture looks like,” Drake gasped painfully before breaking into a cough.
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Audio Narration and Animation - https://youtu.be/0IeDviOL254
Indiegogo https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flying-sparks-a-novel-of-dragon-bear-and-boy/x/20737048#/
Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/humansareweird/flying-sparks-volume-1-science-fantasy-novel
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Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.
Excerpt 8
Just as it had come the flood receded in a flash. The water abated, flowing down stream and soaking into the ground and he collapsed on his back gasping. For a moment he lay there feeling wild joy and gratitude at being alive as his thoughts reformed into words and reason. But movement in the hollow of a dancing Douglas-fir caught his attention and his eyes struggled to focus on a dark form in a darker space. It was a crow he realized, and it was staring at something just below him in avid fascination. Curious Drake lifted and followed the direction of the corvid’s gaze.
At first his mind simply refused to process what he was seeing and focused on the fact that the flood had taken the shirt he had had wrapped around his leg as well as his pants leaving him in his tighty-whiteys. Annoyance hit him as he factored having to avoid Abuelita into his return plans. Then the pain hit him in a wave every bit as overwhelming as the flood and threatened to black him out. He fought against the darkness, a rough old voice urging him to stay awake and face the bull. Shaking his head he stared grimly at his shattered and lacerated leg. While one was merely cut and scraped from debris the already injured limb had clearly been broken.
“Well, Em always did want to know what a compound fracture looks like,” Drake gasped painfully before breaking into a cough.
Science Fantasy Adventure Story
100K Words
Order Now!
#FoundFamily #AlternateHistory #FlyingSparks #ScienceFiction #Scifi #Story #novel #book #Fluff #Angst #AlternateUniverse #Hurt/Comfort #Family #Friendship #love #Violence #Death #FluffandAngst #Parenthood #SupernaturalElements #CharacterDeath #ModernEra #Hurt #Trauma #Domestic #MythicalBeings&Creatures #DrakeMcCarty #AmaLove #Donny #Em #Bard #Bole #Aliens #Spaceships #Crystals #fireflies #NPS #NationalPark #Doctor #Sever #family #storm #writing #reading #drama #literature #author #BettyAdams #DyingEmbers #Dragons #ThingsThatGoBoomp #Indiegogo #CrowdFunding #Injury #Siblings #Enemies
Audio Narration and Animation - https://youtu.be/0IeDviOL254
Indiegogo https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flying-sparks-a-novel-of-dragon-bear-and-boy/x/20737048#/
Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/humansareweird/flying-sparks-volume-1-science-fantasy-novel
Humans are Weird Books - https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00WQ0MDD4/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=3974e835-72b1-447d-8da0-a11f0b13024d&store_ref=ap_rdr&ref_=ap_rdr
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