Search is loosely based on a real incident. The incident remains, the story is greatly different.
Enjoy. And remember, it’s still a work in progress. These chapters are rough drafts. I’ve completed thirty chapters so far and it seems I’ll complete the novel this time. We’ll see.
Read Search Chapter 9
The raven stared at Gio from its branch across the freshly snowed lawn from his dorm room. Gio rubbed his eyes. An exam tomorrow and he would fail it. He already knew, why bother. Physics made no sense to him. Not all of it. Some of it was…wrong? Inaccurate? How to phrase it. Once he walked Singing Beach alone, a night early in the school year, before meeting Jeri. Stars made a mosaic of the sky and the full moon shone like a quiet, nocturnal sun. It spoke to him. He fought not to listen.
Then the sky shimmered and he was high in the cosmos with them, the earth passing beneath him. The moon whispered, “This is how you make antigravity. This is how you make faster-than-light travel. This is how you make teleportation. This is how you make time-travel.”
He watched, fascinated, unable to look away.
The moon showed him something, a small machine, like a circuit board but not, the pieces changing places as the moon spoke. “You see? They are all the same thing, just arranged differently.”
Always the same pieces, just arranged differently.
All things modern science said couldn’t be.
“That’s how it is with all things. We are all the same, just arranged differently.”
Then he was back on the beach wondering what happened.
The raven looked out to the marsh and Gio followed its gaze.
A figure stood in the water. A woman’s shape. Female. Made of water. Standing, watching him.
He shook his head. It was gone. He looked back to the raven. It, too, was gone.
A dorm mate knocked on his open door. “You got a visitor downstairs in the lounge, Gio. Young lady. Quite the looker.”
Jeri? Jeri wasn’t suppose to come by.
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