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around his ears. In a chair across from them was another man. Chills scrambled up and down my body and my heart raced faster than a dog at the track. Taking in deep breaths, I brought my body back to normal. He was short with a glowing bald head. Even though he was sitting, I could tell his build was stocky. He reminded me of something of a truck. Behind his eyes carried the look of horror and torment. He was smiling and laughing but it was a facade. I knew he was evil. There were no lights on; candles lit the room, faintly casting an eerie glow, and their flickering caused shadows to dance around the walls. The pounding rain and winds outside were muffled as I could barely hear their savage howls. I walked towards the windows and noticed they were covered from the outside. The baby’s room window had not been covered? I had been able to look out and see the storm beyond the window. Perplexed, I followed the hallway back to the baby’s room. The windows were now boarded from the outside. For a brief second, I remembered I was in a dream and anything is possible. Just then a clap of thunder and lightning crashed through the sky. The sound bounced through my head and I jumped right out of my dream. Jerry was still pleasantly sleeping beside me, unaware of the monsoon living and breathing outside. I snuggled in closer and once again tried to go back to sleep. My mind was unable to rest and kept flowing back to the evil revolting man. His face was now etched in my mind. He had been the man in my other dream; the one who had chased me. To continue reading, pick up Eye of the Storm at one of the following locations Create Space Barnes and Noble Google Play elle klass' website Kobo Amazon - US Smashwords Amazon - UK iBooks SCOUT’S TALE PART I By Luke Bellmason Have you ever wondered how your jump drive really works? OK, sure, so you simply dial your destination into the navigation computer and press a button, but that navcom has to calculate a trajectory to the point in space where you want to be, then has to take into account all of the gravitational fluctuations between here and there, then has to crunch those numbers into vectors for the jump drive, which then flips your vessel into hyspace at just the right angle and velocity so that it finishes up in lospace at precisely the right point. For all this to happen there needs to be an extraordinarily detailed map of the galaxy you’re in, from every black hole, pulsar and gas giant, to every moon or lump of rock. The map doesn’t just need to know where these things are, but also where they’re 27 | P a g e