Godeena: SF Novel
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“Take me to the others, please.”
It wasn’t him the first time in the President’s palace, but it always impressed him exceedingly. A large number of statues and huge chandeliers decorated the atrium; they must take everybody’s breath away. While Henry was looking at the huge horseman standing in the middle of the atrium, the President’s Secretary addressed him and raised his voice nervously. “Brigadier Broncon, we have no time for that. We aren’t sightseeing.”
He dashed before Henry towards a small door to the left, opened it casually and pointed with his snow-white glove. “Go straight and then to the right at the end of the corridor. I’m coming for you in twenty-five minutes.”
“Thank you, see you then.”
He dashed off somewhere as fast as his legs could go and Henry set off through the long corridor. In the end, he opened the door into a library, which was full of thousands of books. Diana was already sitting on a small couch, and she raised her eyes from a book and said, “You have come.”
“Yes.”
Maria emerged from another part of the library, from where she had been watching the large garden; she was wearing a flattering white evening dress. “You’re late,” she said.
“I arrived just in time.”
She winked at me and asked, “Do you think Mr. President will reproach us if we’re a little late?”
Henry thought for a moment and said, “I reckon he will. This audience is carefully prepared.”
“Maybe it’s better if I drag you away somewhere.”
He looked towards Diana, who was watching them askance and concluded, “None of that. But you might still give me a kiss, as only you know how to.”
“So you think Diana won’t be angry with us?”
Henry simply laughed and kissed her passionately while the world which he had known disappeared in her eyes.
The End
My short data:
I was born 12.09.1965 in Split, Croatia. I live and work in Kastel Sucurac, where I finished my elementary and secondary schooling. At a very young age, I started reading, and I liked it because with these books I have traveled to places that I could never go. As a child, I loved fairy tales and adventure, but later I discovered other genres. Frankly, science fiction fascinated me, and that it all started when I in the library found a Jules Verne. I started writing poetry for fifteen years, and later I started writing SF. Lately, I write stories for children fairy tales and fables. I have published in Croatia the ‘An Opened Heart’ in 2002, ‘The Sleepy Way’ in 2005, ‘Love’ in 2006. On Amazon I published the poetry collections ‘The Child of Happiness’ in 2015, Science Fiction Short Story: “Butterfly” in 2016 and poetry collections “When the moon takes over the dream: Love Poetry” 2016.