Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #18 September 2015 | Page 76

eyes, and offered his typical warm smile as he ran cool
fingers across the tops of hers. “I thought I lost you.”

by surrounding ocean and star-filled sky.
But thunder threatened this sanctity, and with
it... lightning.

Christie’s lips stretched from a grin to a smile.
“Never,” she whispered. The pain in her throat and
chest began fading at an astounding rate. Yet, as it
faded, an annoying ringing bellowed in her ears like
an alarm clock that refused to shut off. The voices
surrounding her grew with emotion, becoming erratic
as one yelled orders at the others.

The low grumbling emerged left of Christie,
somewhere beyond the horizon. How and why such
force insisted on infringing upon her righteous position remained incomprehensible, but its threat held a
gravity too abrasive to dismiss. As the thunder grew
to a raging roar, lightning fanned across the sky in an
array of arcs.

“Are you ready to go?” Patrick’s cool, blue
eyes were dazzling to stare at. They held a calmness
reminiscent of Oblivion’s ocean.

The first of the series just crested over the
horizon. The second outburst shortened the distance
between it and Christie by half the length as the storm
ushered in like a barrelling freight train. Its movement possessed freakish speed and agility, the likes of
which she had never seen before.

“Where are we going?” Christie sat up, and
planted her feet on the floor.
“Home. C’mon!”
“Time?”

Take it away.
It shall pass, dear.
The third outburst erupted right above Christie,
with a deafening roar so loud that her mind remained
fixated on the thunder as the lightning struck her.
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Voices surrounded her, but Christie’s concern
focused on the most important one: the love of her
life, Patrick. He clasped her hand as she opened her

Patrick pulled Christie to her feet. She wobbled on her first step. But Patrick held her up. Her legs
seemed a little truer on the second step, and by the
third… things were back to normal.
As Patrick turned to lead the way, a short
woman in white scrubs walked right through him.
“11:45”

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