CHAPTER 10: Now… Natalie watched as Aaron bent the metal doorframe around Ms. O’Shea’s classroom door, sealing in the three strange, faceless kids that had just attacked them. It had been his idea to block them inside a room until something else could be done. It was that or kill them after all, and despite Nat’s enraged efforts, they had found themselves unwilling to cross … Continue reading The Chosen: Chapter 10
CHAPTER 9: Three Years Ago… The press corps that had gathered outside Amherst College was unlike anything the school’s President had ever seen up close and in person before. Victoria Werther had done some speeches in her day while in charge of the school, but she mostly spoke before a sparse arrangement of local C-team crews. Four cameras, bored reporters—if they were even sent with … Continue reading The Chosen: Chapter 9
Chapter 8: Present Day Smith pushed open the door to room 216B and remembered being a sophomore and having Algebra with Mrs. Anderson there. Every day, he would sit in the last row, pull out his book and position it in front of him just enough so that she could not tell he was pantomiming drum beats he had been dreaming up in his head. … Continue reading The Chosen: Chapter 8
CHAPTER 7: Four Years Ago… Dwight Quinn was reluctant to meet his lifetime best friend, Beau Grant. Even if they had arranged to get together at their favorite bar—Mulligan’s Green, the sports-themed watering hole where they’d been going ever since they turned twenty-one during their days at the University of Houston—nothing felt like it used to be now. They had spent the first thirty-seven years … Continue reading The Chosen, Chapter 7
Minutes before, the James Buchanan High cafeteria had been empty, except for the usual arrangement of tables and the half-dozen seniors who made it to school on a day no one else seemed to have been able. Then the six of them had left the cafeteria. They filed out into the entryway and were shocked to see some kind of beast-man with an axe standing … Continue reading The Chosen, chapter 6
CHAPTER FIVE: Five Years Ago… “Man, I am really sorry about earlier. I didn’t really know you were talking to Butterfly like that. I thought there wasn’t nothing there! Anyway, I was out of line asking her to The Date Spot.” “Naw, man. We’re all here for the cash, man. You gotta do what you think can help us win. It’s cool. It’s cool.” With … Continue reading The Chosen, Chapter 5
As the six James Buchanan High School seniors stood just inside the double doors that separated the cafeteria from the school’s entrance hall, Nat found that all she could think about was her younger sister. Suzanne Lyons had gotten up that morning almost an hour before Nat. She used that time to mull over several outfits. Nat remembered thinking she never in her life needed … Continue reading The Chosen: Chapter 4
Chapter 3: Ten Years Ago… The line for entrance into L was so far down the street that Brayden Van Pelt couldn’t quite see where it ended anymore. Not that it mattered to him; most of the wannabes in line for the opening night of Miami’s newest hot spot were never going to get anywhere near inside. They could stand out there all night in … Continue reading The Chosen: Chapter 3
Chapter 2: Now Smith Kaminski got out of his secondhand Ford Focus and took in the empty student lot around him. It was starting to look pretty likely that he might have gotten the date wrong for the first day of school. Besides his own used sedan, the one he got for his seventeenth birthday, there was only one other vehicle: a green van that … Continue reading The Chosen chapter 2
Chapter One: Forty Years Ago… Dr. Evan Engelhart had never seen an old woman before. Well, that obviously wasn’t entirely true. He had seen plenty of old women. He had two grandmothers when he was a child, and he watched them get older and older as he grew up before they passed. At his graduation for his undergrad degree, Grandma Millie was borderline ancient! She … Continue reading The Chosen: Prologue
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