by Mark Tufo
Their reaction is nearly instantaneous. Beams of light streak from outreached arms. I bank sharply, the beams passing the chopper by scant feet. Slowing quickly and pressing the rudders to bring the nose around, I fire. There are a few heavy caliber rounds remaining from the fight with those flying bugs. The ground is pummeled under the impacting rounds, wet dirt and stone flying into the air. The Overseers are momentarily lost in giant splashes of mud and rock.
Glancing quickly to see if BT is still with us, I see him hanging onto the strut with both arms and only one leg. However, there isn’t time to allow him to get repositioned. Lowering the nose, I aim straight for the giant portal. I have no idea what lies on the other side or whether we’ll be able to go through it. For some reason, the structure below allowed us to enter with Trip, so I’m hoping the same holds true here.
The snapping and crackling portal fills the windscreen, the streamers of silver flowing across the black space to vanish in the center, like the iris of an eye feeding into a pupil. The instruments go crazy, the compass spinning in rapid circles. The edges of the rotor pass through the portal as if it wasn’t there. The high-pitched keening turns into a roar. The sunshine vanishes instantly, and we enter into a realm of deep darkness. All goes silent.
About Mark Tufo
Mark Tufo was born in Boston Massachusetts. He attended UMASS Amherst where he obtained a BA and later joined the US Marine Corp. He was stationed in Parris Island SC, Twenty Nine Palms CA and Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. After his tour he went into the Human Resources field with a worldwide financial institution and has gone back to college at CTU to complete his masters.
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He has written the Indian Hill trilogy with the first Indian Hill - Encounters being published for the Amazon Kindle in July 2009. He has since written the Zombie Fallout series and is working on a new zombie book.
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He lives in Maine with his wife, three kids and two English bulldogs. Visit him at marktufo.com or http://zombiefallout.blogspot.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Tufo/133954330009843 for news on his next two installments of the Indian Hill trilogy and upcoming installments of the Zombie Fallout series.
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About John O’Brien
John O'Brien is a former Air Force fighter instructor pilot who transitioned to Special Operations for the latter part of his career gathering his campaign ribbon for Desert Storm. Immediately following his military service, John became a firefighter/EMT with a local department. Along with becoming a firefighter, he fell into the Information Technology industry in corporate management. Currently, John is writing full-time on the series, A New World.
As a former marathon runner, John lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and can now be found kayaking out in the waters of Puget Sound, mountain biking in the Capital Forest, hiking in the Olympic Peninsula, or pedaling his road bike along the many scenic roads.
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A Shrouded World The Series
Whistlers Book 1
Atlantis Book 2
Convergence Book 3
Valhalla Book 4
Asabron Book 5
Bitfrost Book 6
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