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Publisher: Abigail Kloss-Aycardi
Type: Fiction
Pages: 111
Copyright: November 28, 2014
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
Ever wonder what an accident might do to change your entire future? What if you didn’t even know what your past was, due to amnesia from the accident? This was the dilemma facing Olivia Polansky, a successful poet whose trip on the Madrid Metro would bring her to accept an outcome she may have only foreseen in her poetic imagination.
"Jess had been intensely occupied with wiping Olivia's face. He couldn't tell if she was breathing or not and was too afraid to check for a pulse. The idea of losing her when he had only just found her was beyond consideration. Resting his forehead against hers, he began speaking softly to her, 'Please don't leave me. Please hang on. There's so much to tell you.'"
A powerful derailment on the Madrid Metro throws the lives of three people together and changes them forever as they are forced to see life from a different perspective: Olivia Polansky the American poet, Jess Wilkinson the Londoner on holiday and Maritza Caballero de Lezcano a Panamanian widow on a mission to rectify the wrongdoing of another.
Madrid Metro is a story of hope, faith, endurance and love despite injustice, tragedy and disappointment.
Excerpt
"Gasps and screams filled the air. Everything went black. The train was moving too quickly for the curve and began to slide off the track, sending people and objects flying to the opposite side of the car. Olivia was thrown with tremendous force into the opposite railing, dislocating her left shoulder initially. Before she could finish crying out in pain, the force sent her flying straight toward Jess.
All he could think about was the woman that was being thrown into his arms,
“She’ll never know who I am. She’ll never know how much I-“
Olivia’s battered shoulder caught his throat, choking him, sending both their heads into the glass window behind. Her messenger bag, still hanging around her shoulder, went flying and landed with a powerful blow right into Doña Maritza’s stomach, knocking the wind out of her. The train continued to slide diagonally along the track with a terrible grinding noise and spewing sparks. Then, to make matters worse, the car began to tilt until it finally fell on the side where Jess and Doña Maritza were sitting. All the passengers and their belongings were thrown on top of the windows. The weight was too much and the passengers simply fell out. Jess and Olivia hung out of the train, with only their legs still inside. Jess grabbed onto the edge of the window opening in an attempt not to be crushed as the train continued to slide with a terrible grinding sound, sparks showering everything, creating the only light to be seen. Doña Maritza had just barely grabbed onto the railing at her side and was holding on with all her might.
As she grasped for the railing, with people and objects being tossed about all around her, she thought,
“Please God no! This is my chance to right the wrongs of my idiot husband once and for all. I’ll get to return to my home with a clean conscience and a cleared reputation. My children won’t carry their father’s sins any longer. Please God, not yet!”"
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