First Pages: Jacob's Vision
Erin writes of her earthbound memories of an interplanetary war, of the fate of a war hero, and of the start of re-building.
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First Pages: Jacob's Vision
The hill, with its footing of
green-studded black, was the same as I remembered it. I stood at the top of the
ridge looking out, seeing the city ruins, imagining the glow from its center at
night.
I’d seen the ruins, and watched that
glow before—with Jacob. It had always been his dream that we would return, that
the beacon he had set would bring rescue, or aid in the rebuilding he had
envisioned.
Sighing, I settled myself at the foot of
one of the scarred and blackened statues, and set my notecase beside me. I took
the hardbound notebook from the case, opened it and continued writing.
I had been telling of my fifth week with
the Wanderers. It had been two days before I’d begun to seek Jacob’s vision in
earnest, and it had been near dusk.
With
another sigh, I lifted my pen to continue my recollections where I’d left them
the night before.
*
* *
It was close to dusk when we met and I
looked from one face to the other. “We need to find out what’s in them?”
Kurt nodded.
I scanned their faces again. Ilya with
one arm in dirt-encrusted bandages; Padraig, leg splinted from thigh to heel;
and Allie whose bloused shirt hid the strapping across her ribs. They all
watched me in return.
“All right,” I said. “I’ll go.”
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Jacob's Vision is available in An Anthology of Battle or as a stand-alone title at Smashwords, Kobo, Kindle, iTunes and Nook.
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