Promo: After The Ending
After the
Ending
Lindsey Fairleigh and Lindsey
Pogue
Sci-Fi /
Dystopian
Date Published:
2/22/13
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The Virus spread. Billions
died. The Ending began. We may have survived the apocalypse, but the
Virus changed us.
When people started getting sick, “they” thought
it was just the flu. My roommate, my boyfriend, my family…they’re
all gone now. I got sick too. I should have died with them—with the
rest of the world—but I didn’t. I thought witnessing the human
population almost disappear off the face of the earth was the
craziest thing I’d ever experience. I was so wrong. My name is Dani
O’Connor, I’m twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The
Ending.
The Virus changed everything. The world I knew is
gone, and life is backwards. We’ve all had to start over. I’ve
been stripped of my home, my dreams…all that is me. I’m someone
else now— broken and changed. Other survivors’ memories and
emotions haunt me. They invade my mind until I can no longer separate
them from my own. I won’t let them consume me. I can’t. My name
is Zoe Cartwright, I’m twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The
Ending.
We’ve been inseparable for most of our lives, and
now our friendship is all we have left. The aftermath of the Virus
has stranded us on opposite sides of the United States. Trusting
strangers, making sacrifices, killing—we’ll do anything to reach
one another. Fear and pain may be unavoidable, but we’re
strong…we’re survivors. But to continue surviving in this
unfamiliar world plagued by Crazies and strange new abilities, we
have to adapt. We have to evolve.
EXCERPT
Looking around
apprehensively, I made my way toward the convenience store in hopes
of finding a bathroom. The vacant world around me was eerily silent.
All I could hear was the creaking of a giant wooden billboard being
assaulted by the wind. How long has it been since anyone was here?
Through the dark windows I saw a bathroom sign that looked promising,
but I couldn’t bring myself to enter. I wonder if it’s
safe…
As I stood outside of the
store, I noticed a newspaper box still filled with papers. I leaned
closer. The headline read, BILLIONS DEAD, and the paper was dated
December 9, right before everything had started to shut down. I
inserted a quarter and snatched out a paper. Scanning its contents,
my mouth grew dry and my body stiffened.
…the H1N1/12
pandemic…
…looting and riotous
outbreaks everywhere…
…end of civilization as we
know it…
…survivors losing their
minds…
…governments can’t
control…
…the
Apocalypse…
The newspaper slipped from
between my fingers. Frozen in place, I was suffocated by the reality
of our situation.
This isn’t going
away.
The world ended. Thinking of
the strange feelings I’d been experiencing, I once again questioned
my own sanity. My thoughts were too loud to silence. My heart
thudded, and I couldn’t swallow the lump in my throat. Looking out
into the abandoned world around me, I realized how alone we really
were. I bent down to reclaim the paper and turned on my heels to head
back toward the truck, completely awestruck as the words I’d read
replayed in my mind. Each was a reminder that the only world I’d
ever known had ended.
Author
Bio:
Lindsey Fairleigh lives her
life with one foot in a book—as long as that book transports her to
a magical world or bends the rules of science. Her novels, from
post-apocalyptic to time travel and historical fantasy, always offer
up a hearty dose of unreality, along with plenty of adventure and
romance. When she’s not working on her next novel, Lindsey spends
her time reading and trying out new recipes in the kitchen. She lives
in the Napa Valley with her loving husband and confused
cats.
Lindsey Pogue has always been a little creative. As a
child she established a bug hospital on her elementary school soccer
field, compiled books of collages as a teenager, and as an adult,
expresses herself through writing. Her novels are inspired by her
observations of the world around her—whether she’s traveling,
people watching, or hiking. When not plotting her next storyline or
dreaming up new, brooding characters, Lindsey’s wrapped in blankets
watching her favorite action flicks or going on road trips with her
own leading man.
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