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The
three images are of one jar as the design wraps halfway around the
jar.
Sandblasting is one of my hobbies and I shot this design myself.
Man is no longer alone at the top of
the food chain.
From the East a new threat to a struggling civilization
emerges, spreading across the land like a cancerous stain, leaving in its wake
the shattered remnants of a species teetering on the brink of extinction.
After the dead walked and society crumbled, mankind
struggled back from the brink of extinction. Having fled the cities the
survivors lead a more pastoral lifestyle, while the cities to the east stand as
silent monuments to the former progress of man.
But they are not empty.
Not only did mankind leave behind the trappings of his
progress, but the creatures of the night that once fed along the shadowy edges
of a well lit world. Inhabiting that twilight space between day and night,
between what is real and imagined, between dreams and nightmares.
In Bryn Mawr Window is infected when he is bitten by a
Reaper. As he struggles against the rising blood lust, viewing his friends as a
potential meal, they set out to the East in the search of a cure.
Along the way they learn more about the nature of the world
they inhabit, their own past, and the part they each play in a potential
future. Crossing paths with a shadowy figure who leaves small tokens from each
of their own history. Little objects that carry powerful emotions linked to
major changes in their past lives.
Excerpt:
With the memories came knowledge of things that so
far had remained a mystery to him. The reality of their world was no longer as
firm as it had once seemed. A tenuous fabric that could be easily shredded at
will, exposing the inner workings of their world beneath it, and the existence
of other realities that were but a few short steps away, for someone with his
unique abilities.
They were realities that bore little semblance to
anything he knew. With his mind’s eye he had seen worlds where the natural laws
that governed their own had been turned upon their head. Worlds where nightmare
creatures roamed at will, where the night battled the day, and the shadows
breathed with a life of their own.
He stood in a shadowy corner of the barn, away from
the weak sunlight that burned his exposed flesh with a fevered touch. With his
hand he moved aside the fabric of the world in which they lived. He giggled as
his fingers slid behind the image of the wooden wall, a chill caressing his
fingertips as they vanished from view.
“Are you all right down there?” Billie-Bob called
from the loft above.
“Right as rain,” Window replied with a lilt in his
voice. Closing his hand his fingertips bled through the surface of the wall as
he giggled again with a strangeness that disturbed him. He heard Billie-Bob’s
footsteps behind him as he came down the ladder from the loft.
Turning around it was easy to spot Billie-Bob as he
approached through the shadows. No longer was the night capable of hiding
things from him. He could see as easily in the dark as he could during the day.
It was another of the strange developments that had occurred since he’d been
bitten.
“Meat and Einstein went out to catch whoever's
following us,” Billie-Bob said as he stepped closer to Window, “are you sure
you’re okay?”
“Never been better,” Window replied. From Billie-Bob
came a faint sound that had always been there, a familiar sound, one he had
known his entire life, the strong steady beating of a young heart. Only now it
was accompanied by the thrumming sound of blood being pumped through the
arteries. Placing his hand on his chest he felt his own heartbeat thumping in
time with Billie-Bob’s.
“Why are you staring at me like that?” Billie-Bob
said, the steady rhythm of his heartbeat suddenly stepping up a notch.
“Like what?”
End Excerpt
I hope this helps to whet your appetite.
How to enter:
On the weekend of June 24, 25, and 26 download a free copy of ALL ROADS LEAD TO TERROR from AMAZON .
Before the end of July leave your honest review for ALL ROADS LEAD TO TERROR and send an email with the link to me at rschiver@gmail.com. The names will be placed in a hat, or jar, or bowl depending on how many I get and my wife will draw the winner. I will contact the winner on August 1st and will announce the name here.
It's that simple, get a free book, leave a review, and maybe you'll win. For those of you in the continuous U.S I'll also send an autographed bookmark, pictured below, just for your trouble. I know it's not much, but I'd just like to say thanks for taking the time to help me out.
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