READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 VOL 2 ISSUE 6 - JAN-FEB 2015 | Page 44

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her heart racing like that of a wild creature. Alex sat on the
pile of dusty sacks, leaned back against the rough stone wall in
the corner of what seemed to be an old storage cellar, rocked
her gently. He continued to murmur soothing words to her,
and when she had calmed enough to listen, he tried to explain
the unexplainable.
"It brought us both, Jessie," he said, a sort of giddy wonder in
his voice. "One of us must have stumbled on the program. No
matter, it brought us both."
"What...brought us?" She had no idea what he was talking
about.
He risked easing his hold on her long enough to tug the device
from a pocket and place it in her hand. She stared at it without
comprehension. Then, as realization dawned, she regarded it
with awestruck horror. She gripped his arm with one hand,
clutched the small device with the other.
"But where, Alex? Where did it bring us?" Desperately Jessie
looked around again, but the cellar receded into shadows. She
could see only stacks of crates, barrels, and piled sacks. A
small, grill-covered window high on one wall admitted just the
faintest gray shaft of early-morning light.
Alex shook his head and gently opened her fist.
"Not where,” he said, and after a long moment, she hesitantly
followed his rapt gaze to the device's small, glowing screen.
"Not where, Jessie. When." *
*copyright by Lorrie Farrelly

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