Infinite
Sight
Barbara
Custer
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Night to Dawn Magazine
& Books LLC
Date of Publication: 11/30/2015 (tentative)
ISBN: 978-1-937769-42-0 (print)
ASIN:
Number of pages: 112 pages
Word Count: 25,225
Cover Artist: Marge Simon
Book Description:
Devastated by an error which
caused an infant’s death, Lilly becomes deathly ill and collapses from loss of
blood. She wakes up from emergency surgery with mental telepathic powers.
When an extraterrestrial ship
crash-lands near her home, she investigates and happens upon a survivor who
needs her help. Motivated by guilt-ridden feelings over the baby, she rescues
him, catapulting herself into a war between two alien armies.
Now the renegade soldiers are on
her trail and have marked her for death.
Excerpt
In the woods,
she coughed her way through a maze of twisted oaks. She hacked and gagged on
the stink of sulfur; the smell was worse around the ship, which lay between
shattered aisles of trees it had destroyed in its descent. Flames flickered
from its open hatchway. The ship itself lay canted to one side with air bubbles
bursting all around it. On its left side, pieces of metal scattered in the
grass. Shining her light on the ship, Lilly happened upon warped metal strips
protruding over one side. Underneath the ship, glowing embers leaped and
twirled in a blue fiery dance. Face dripping with sweat, she shot glances right
and left. Where are the firemen? The police? My neighbors? Enormous Christmas
ornaments like this don’t crash and burn every day. Surely either radar or
other scanner devices had detected this.
Leaves crunched
to her right, followed by a scraping of branches. Lilly charged into the brush,
panting gasps escaping her lips. Her flashlight played over the grass and
bushes, for without her light, she couldn’t see to navigate in the dark. Her
foot tapped against something—a shiny metal helmet rolled under a shrub. The
branches separated. Lilly looked in and screamed.
A gloved hand
reached for the helmet. The owner of that hand stepped from its hiding place,
put its helmet on, and stared at Lilly with glowing red eyes. Dressed in a lime
green spacesuit, it stood about her height. Its bald head, thin lips, and
masculine features made it look like a male human, but the pointed ears and
flattened nose with nostrils like tiny slits defined him as extraterrestrial.
His jagged teeth chattered. He trembled
like an electrified wire.
Lilly screamed
again. “Get out of here,” she shouted. “Go home!”
About
the Author:
Barbara lives near Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where she works full time as a respiratory therapist. When she’s
not working with her patients, she’s enjoying a fright flick or working on
horror and science fiction tales. Her short stories have appeared in numerous
small press magazines. She’s published Night to Dawn magazine since 2004.
Other books by Barbara include
City of Brotherly Death and Steel Rose, plus novellas Close Liaisons and Life
Raft: Earth. She’s also coauthored Alien Worlds and Starship Invasions (both
now out of print) with Tom Johnson. She anticipates release of When Blood
Reigns, the sequel to Steel Rose. She enjoys bringing her medical background to
the printed page, and then blending it with supernatural horror. She maintains
a presence on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and The Writers Coffeehouse forum.
Look for the photos with the Mylar balloons and you’ll find her.
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