The Object: Book One (Object Series) - Plot & Excerpts
In the shade of the I-65 overpass on Broadway, a strange blind man with long white hair and glossy eyes sat holding a sign that read THE END IS NIGH. He spoke to the echo of his own voice: "I can hear you scream. I can sense your fear. I can feel you running away. I can't see the thing you're running from, but I can sense it gaining on you." At the man's feet sat a tin can. He picked it up and shook it. A few coins rattled inside. "I've spoken to it. I know why it's come. Spare a quarter and I'll tell you what it wants." Then he laughed maniacally and shook the can again before returning it to the sidewalk and repeating the process. In the breeze whispered a distant police siren, but otherwise the city was silent--so silent you could almost hear the lapping of the Ohio River, the gush of air from unknown mechanisms jutting out of the object's surface. Right about the time the vintage clothing store on Bardstown Road finally burned down to smoldering embers, another plume of smoke billowed up toward the underbelly of the object, this one farther north, right across the section of interstate where drivers could look down on the tops of the three- and four-story houses and apartment buildings that made up Old Louisville.
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