Liar's Harvest (The Emergent Earth) - Plot & Excerpts
I jumped, boots pushing against the slick metal windowsill and hands reaching upwards towards the rifle.Thunder shook me as the rifle went off less than a foot from my face. Impact raced through my body as the round struck. Where, I couldn’t say. The flash from the muzzle was blinding and a hot spray of powder burned across my right cheek and eye.Momentum kept me moving upwards. I crashed blindly into Prime and grabbed the rifle with both hands. He shoved hard and let go of the rifle, pushing me out into open space.I fell for three stories, stunned and blind, clutching the hot gun barrel to my chest. Without sight I felt suspended in the air, hanging motionless in space for long seconds until the steel roof of a car punched into my back. I felt the car compress under me, the roof buckling and the car squatting low on its springs, then swaying and bouncing as the suspension rebounded upwards.The world above me slowly resolved into two halves. The white hospital wall on the bottom and the flat gray sky on the top.
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