I am going to start by saying, thank a god that there is a second book. As I got towards the end....it wasn't quite "wrapping" up. I just got sucked into this one. I connected with the characters. I like a good plague story (a pandemic to me is one of the most frightening scenarios)it was real an...
Stopping four feet away from the mayor, she locked her trembling knees. She tried to swallow, but her tongue swelled like foam in her mouth. Oh, for a drink of water, just a sip.She glanced out the window. Rain pattered gently against the stained glass depicting Psyche leaning over a sleeping Cup...
I lay on the floor, staring at my murderer. My eyes didn’t blink. My chest didn’t rise and fall. My heart didn’t beat. Where was the light everyone talked about? And shouldn’t I be leaving my body soon? God only knew what Ulla had done to me. Ulla leaned over me, a frown marring her pretty face. ...
Pain throbbed in her head, blazed down her right shoulder and echoed in her right hip. Squeezing her eyes closed, she swallowed the bile roaring at the back of her throat and waited for the nausea to pass. Bit by bit, her stomach settled and she dared to speak. “What happened?”“You screamed ‘no’ ...
Leaning over the prostrate form of Erin, Nell repeated her umpteenth refrain of the Gilligan’s Island theme song. Fermites swarmed around her hands, sprinkling the air like mad pixies. None of the little buggers approached Erin. The woman groaned and clutched her stomach. Yellow skin moulded the ...
Grease formed a skin on his half-eaten bowl of soup. His stomach tightened and his gut clenched. The fare did not sit well with him. He hoped the ladies cleared out of the facilities before the food washed out what little remained of his insides.In the center of the cave, an old man tossed rounds...