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Category:
Science Fiction
Publisher: Chinchilla Press
ISBN-10: 1545234949
Type: Fiction
Pages: 234
Copyright: Sep 6, 2017
ISBN-13: 9781545234945
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Amy discovers that random people are staring at her, and it's creeping her out. However, the real problem is that the world might be ending, unless she can figure out what's going on.
Amy is a sixteen-year-old girl who starts to notice that something strange is happening. People are staring at her. It could be anyone- friends, family, strangers, even animals. They just freeze in place and start watching her, and they don't even seem to notice that they're doing it. And then, when she's caught in an explosion at her father's research lab, things really get nuts. Amy and her friends need to figure out the mystery of what's happening to her before it's too late, because something big is going on. And the more they learn, the more obvious it becomes that it might not just be Amy who's in danger. It might be the entire world.
Excerpt
Amy shivered and cursed Darren for being too lazy to get up early and drive her to school. She usually ended up walking to swim practice in the mornings. It was only about a mile and a half to school from her house, so it wasn’t usually that big a deal. But on days like this when it was so much colder than normal, Amy wished she had a car. And a driver’s license. Unfortunately, she had neither.
As she neared the end of her road she braced herself. The house on the corner was home to a particularly vicious Labrador retriever. Every time that Amy walked past the yard, the dog rushed to the chain link fence that surrounded the front yard and snarled and barked at her as if Amy were an intruder that had murdered the dog’s family. She hated that dog. Another annoying thing was the fact that the Labrador’s owners didn’t seem to mind that their dog constantly made such a commotion. Surely their neighbors had complained by now!
But today, as Amy approached the house, she was greeted only by silence. It was kind of strange. Was the dog gone? Was it inside the house? Had it died? Amy sincerely hoped so. The thing was a monster.
When she got near the yard, however, Amy saw that the dog was not missing. It sat at the edge of the yard, silently watching her through the links of the fence. This was such a change from the dog’s normal behavior that Amy stopped cold and stared back at the animal. It hunched next to the fence, completely motionless. At first, Amy was afraid that the dog might actually be dead, maybe killed by her own bad thoughts toward it. But no, she could see that the animal's sides rose and fell as it breathed. It was very bizarre.
Amy hesitated, then walked toward the fence so that she could get a better look at the creature. Was it sick? It looked the same as it always did. But the way that it was watching her— it gave her an uneasy feeling. A feeling that seemed somehow familiar. A little more hesitantly, she walked right up to the fence to get a closer look. The dog’s eyes followed her as she approached, but otherwise, the animal didn’t move at all. Not even a twitch of its muscles. Amy knelt down and stared directly through the links of the fence and into the Labrador’s eyes. She clapped her hands. The dog didn’t even blink. Only inches separated her from its head.
Then, with a vicious snarl, the dog suddenly lunged straight at her. Amy screamed and jumped back with a start. The formerly silent dog had, in only an instant, turned into a terrifying killing machine. Or in other words, it had returned to normal. If it weren’t for the fence between them, she was sure the dog would happily tear out her throat.
Amy quickly retreated from the fence and resumed her trek to school, almost running in her haste to get away from the monster. The animal’s barking and growling faded away behind her. Something weird had just happened, but it made no sense. Why had the dog acted that way? What would make it just sit there and stare at her for so long, especially since it had never done anything like that before? Was something wrong with the dog? Or was something wrong with her?
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