Also by Sean Roney:
- Arcane Genesis: Depression Lock
- Rise of the Fungal Dead: Zombies at High School
- The Flaming Dumpsters: Taste of Pain
- Rise of the Fungal Dead: Hunting Farmer Liz
- Powers of the Meek: Friends, Love and Hate
- Headlines of the Dead 16: News Girl Escapes
- Headlines of the Dead 15: Rebellion in Latoa County
- Headlines of the Dead 14: News Girl Rises
- Survivor's Tale: Blind Girl vs. Onion Zombies
- Perth & Bo's Fairy Tales: Seven Attack Parrots
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Published: Dec. 09, 2011
Words: 5,199 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466088573
Short description
The last woman on Earth finds herself in a race to answer the phone to finally hear another human voice. Something is making calls, and she needs to find out what. In a world where gravity doesn't work as expected and night is eternal, she finds just answering the phone to be a deadly challenge.Extended description
The last woman on Earth finds herself in a race to answer the phone to finally hear another human voice. Something is making calls, and she needs to find out what. In a world where gravity doesn't work as expected and night is eternal, she finds just answering the phone to be a deadly challenge.What if there really are people out there trying to reach her? What if it is an intelligent machine trying to make contact? And why does reality bend to the ring of a phone? Only answering will give her the answers she needs.
This short story is set in the Arcane Genesis series by Sean Roney.
Tags
apocalypse, short story, darkness, reality, phone, strange, altered reality, worldshift saga, arcane genesisAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Jeffrey John Martin
on Dec. 11, 2011 :
(no rating)
I stopped after the first few hundred words.
I liked the image of being alone and being so desperate that you dive onto pavement and scrape your knee to answer a phone, but I had to put the image together after the fact like having someone explain the parts of the joke they left out.
(review of free book)
Review by:
Jeffrey John Martin
on Dec. 11, 2011 :
I stopped after the first few hundred words.
I liked the image of being alone and being so desperate that you dive onto pavement and scrape your knee to answer a phone, but I had to put the image together after the fact like having someone explain the parts of the joke they left out.
(review of free book)
Review by:
Jeffrey John Martin
on Dec. 11, 2011 :
I stopped after the first few hundred words.
I liked the image of being alone and being so desperate that you dive onto pavement and scrape your knee to answer a phone, but I had to put the image together after the fact like having someone explain the parts of the joke they left out.
(review of free book)