Clara only wanted to reach her interview on time.
Now she finds herself lost in time, space and reality with only an impeccably dressed six-foot tall lemur for company.
Dragged through Breaches to alternative realities, timelines, alien worlds and a filthy diner off the I95, all she wants is to return home. Preferably before tea-time.
Trigger Warnings: Severe shoe damage, references to drug taking (Bloody Linda!), oh, and minor foul language. Unsuitable for hydroelectric citizens of Vardak V (Citizens of Vardak IV and VI have shown no signs of explosive side-effects. So far). Gluten free.
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Clara peeled her face from the dribble encrusted pillow and felt her stomach turn. During the night she had kicked the c... Read Chapter
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Clara looked around her. No-one else seemed to give the lemur so much as a second glance, which, she thought, was quite ... Read Chapter
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Clara looked around, becoming used to the crack and smash of the lightning, although, more than once, the strikes hit fa... Read Chapter
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The punt almost overturned as they landed upon it and a splash caused Clara to look around, trying to steady herself. Al... Read Chapter
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Familiar, at least, in that the lemur seemed to know where he was.
“Aha!” Trying to stay upright in t... Read Chapter
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“Excuse me, my dear, you’re dripping water on my shoes.” The woman with taut skin, make-up applied by a trowel, ha... Read Chapter
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The Observation Deck wasn’t as windy as she expected, although most of the wind would find itself directed away by the... Read Chapter
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It looked like a house. Not like any house she had ever lived in, or visited, or seen on tv. Except maybe one of those w... Read Chapter
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The Kapakapururu pulled out all the stops. Finding a table and two chairs that could be placed on the floor, not the wal... Read Chapter
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He was kidding. Again. No eyes of little, blue furry creatures were desecrated while eating her strangely excellent ali... Read Chapter
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Foston sat on the wall, pressing the handkerchief to his nose, ignoring the giant man in a dirty vest screaming at him ... Read Chapter
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Foston, troubled, worried, furtive and yet still full of swagger and out-of-place ego, strode with purpose through the ... Read Chapter
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After blowing out the candle and suffering a kiss on each cheek, Clara felt she could no longer muster even a strained ... Read Chapter
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Clara screamed again, much to the consternation of Foston. The tongue of the creature, whose mouth they currently occup... Read Chapter
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Thirty-five miles seemed a long distance to travel in one go and Foston made, perhaps, the first good decision since th... Read Chapter
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Schadenfreude. That was the name of the hotel and Clara wondered if it was a joke of some kind. She didn’t get it, if... Read Chapter
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After eating the compulsory breakfast, watched by a keen eyed hotel staff member ensuring they ate every last crumb of ... Read Chapter
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“What. The hell. Just happened?” Clara turned around walking backwards away from the traffic cones and that evil, e... Read Chapter
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They left the café with the cliché waiter grumbling about them as he cleared away their table. They made solid progre... Read Chapter
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This Clara, however, was taller. With a big shock of hair, wild make-up that Clara, the real Clara would never, ever we... Read Chapter
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The ‘theme’ of The Corridor changed several times as they walked back towards their destination. Sometimes the chan... Read Chapter
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Foston was almost running, stopping every now and then to wait impatiently for Clara to catch up as she tried, in confu... Read Chapter
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Foston was almost running, stopping every now and then to wait impatiently for Clara to catch up as she tried, in confu... Read Chapter
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It wasn’t until Foston’s hand stopped her from moving forward, that she realised he must be keeping his eyes open t... Read Chapter
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Foston entered in haphazard fashion, banging his elbow upon the doorframe, bumping into the sink and almost walking int... Read Chapter
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Clara stared at Clara. Clara, however, glared at Clara. Foston admired the sparsity and brutalist stylings of the brig... Read Chapter
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The bunk was considerably uncomfortable. Even more so as the ship continued to receive a battering from some unknown ou... Read Chapter
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The robot hand padded around on the dining table like a spider. Or a crab. Or a robot hand. Either way, it creeped Clar... Read Chapter
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Captain Clara slipped the chromium stilettos back onto her feet in that slinky way that some women took them off. Clara... Read Chapter
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Opening the curtains on the French windows, Clara gripped her wine glass, steadying herself for the latest blow to her ... Read Chapter
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The monster baby blew air bubbles against the glass of reception area door, coating it with a glob of dribble that tric... Read Chapter
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“Well, I expected that to be a little more eventful.” Foston stepped out of the lift and the lights in the area fli... Read Chapter
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Foston returned to browsing the files upon the computer, trying desperately to find out just how, in the multi-verse, h... Read Chapter
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With much hissing, clunking and noises that sounded an awful lot like several large, grown men shifting something parti... Read Chapter
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It was humanoid. That Clara was certain of. Or, at least, humanoid shaped, if a little fuzzy around the edges. And glow... Read Chapter
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Time glared across the pristine white table, his cartoon eyes thin and squinting, his mouth a thin line with, what look... Read Chapter
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There she was, attempting to catch a taxi, running through her contact list, taking out a contact card for what she tho... Read Chapter
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Rob73
An entertaining YA science fiction novel in the vein of Alan Dean Foster.
Mon, September 13th, 2021 8:28amAuthor
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Thank you so much! ??
Mon, September 13th, 2021 1:49am