Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Broken Boxes
    Broken Boxes
    Broken Boxes
    Ebook275 pages4 hours

    Broken Boxes

    By JS Evans

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Broken Boxes
    In 2114 paleontolgist Buffy Wingo is digging up fossilized Martian microbes. While digging in the Procter Crater she finds something very unusual, a figurine carved out of a midnight black rock and a bleached white bone. She knows she has seen the figurine somewhere before.
    She runs tests on the black figurine and the data comes back as columnar lava. The only place that there is this kind of lava is Earth, there is none on Mars. The data on the white bone comes back as fossilized organic material, possibly from some Martian life form.
    During the night she remembers where she has seen the figurine before. One of her professors at the university, Max Schrader, would bring in books about ancient societies. In one of his books was a drawing of a box with two of these figurines on the lid. She contacts Max and he agrees to help her on her search.
    On Earth they go to libraries to find information on her figurine. But the authorities have put restictions on the books and the information about ancient times. One night when they are walking back from dinner an intruder attacks her. The intruder wants the figurine. When they get back to the apartment she overpowers the intruder and they tie him up. His name is Ted and he belongs to a freedom fighting group called New Day.The group broke into her space communication and they saw the figurine. They belive the figurine could hurt the authorities. They take Ted on as a partner to find the answers.
    Their search takes them to Ethiopia where they locate the ancient box on an island in Lake Tana.
    The elders on the island come up with a plan to present the ancient box and her figurine to the public. A big soccer match is being played in a couple of days. After the game they will bring the items out on field so everyone will see them.
    The night before the game they are making preperations in a warehouse near the stadium. Buffy walks down the street for a breath of fresh air. A couple blocks away from the warehouse she sees vehicles pulling up to the warehouse. The authorities run into the building and shoots everyone inside. As she runs towards the building a manhole cover pops up. Another member from New Day pops up from the sewer. He gives her a choice of either coming down into the sewer or be killed by the authorities. She climbs down into the sewer. She chooses life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJS Evans
    Release dateJan 6, 2012
    ISBN9781466137929
    Broken Boxes
    Author

    JS Evans

    I was born at an early age in Southern California. I found my love for writing in grade school where my unusual stories could drive a normally sane nun into early retirement. In literary circles I am a giant among lesser men. My work has appeared in many slush piles across the country. I do not have Twitter, Facebook or STD's. I live in my own little world knitting humotous cummerbunds.

    Related to Broken Boxes

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Beethoven, Regolith, and You

      Dec 7, 2021

      Beethoven, Regolith, and You
      3 min read

    • Article

      Table Talk

      Jun 1, 2021

      Table Talk
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Stars Are a Comforting Constant: A poet blends the personal with the cosmic.

      Dec 1, 2016

      The first time I saw a meteor, I’d slipped outside to lie in the grass after everyone else had gone to sleep. The daytime commotion of my cousins’ and siblings’ games and my Poppop’s blaring polka music often drove me to tears. As an introvert, I wan

      4 min read

    • Article

      Under Construction

      Feb 1, 2024

      Under Construction
      4 min read

    • Article

      Storm Chaser

      May 1, 2022

      Storm Chaser
      7 min read

    • Article

      Is There Beer in Space?

      Nov 9, 2017

      Space is a cold and barren place. Nothing can exist there, nothing!” Ludwig Von Drake, an obscure uncle of Donald Duck and a professor of astronomy, is sitting on a high stool in his observatory. When he sees that he is being filmed, he falls off and

      19 min read

    • Article

      Tim Keen

      Nov 13, 2019

      Tim Keen
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Parallel Universes of a Woman in Science: In Physics and in Life, Choice and Possibility Play Against Each Other.: In physics and in life, choice and possibility play against each other.

      Oct 6, 2016

      I spent years in graduate school where terrified students would desperately try to make small talk with Stephen Hawking in the corridors. There were few other women and no one else who was not brilliant, or at least capable of convincingly acting the

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Bargain

      Dec 10, 2022

      “Which one of you owns G2V3889?” Cygnus glided through a luminescent star field suspended in the center of an otherwise dark, oblong studio, then turned in a slow circle to survey the twenty Agents surrounding him. “Come on, speak up.” Vega shuddered

      16 min read

    • Article

      From Underworld Lit

      Sep 1, 2020

      (Fall Term) Browsing the criticism section of the campus used bookshop, I unearth a copy of my scholarly monograph on postcolonial Graveyard Poets, already thick with dust, misplaced between Ramazani and Ransom. “Goodnight bears,” Mira says, knocking

      2 min read

    • Article

      Sweet Fantasy

      Nov 20, 2021

      Sweet Fantasy
      8 min read

    • Article

      Sci-Fi Has Changed A Lot In The Past Decade — These 7 Reads Will Show You How

      Aug 16, 2021

      This year's Summer Poll is all about the past decade in science fiction and fantasy, so we asked critic Jason Sheehan to come up with his own list of the new sci-fi that's blowing his mind.

      9 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of . . .

      Jan 1, 2019

      In Search Of . . .
      7 min read

    • Article

      Out Of This World

      Aug 1, 2021

      Out Of This World
      4 min read

    • Article

      In Praise of Darkness

      Aug 15, 2018

      HEATHER LANIER is the author of the nonfiction book Teaching in the Terrordome as well as two poetry chapbooks. Her essays have appeared in Salon, the Sun, Fourth Genre, Brevity, and elsewhere, and her TED talk on the incomplete stories we tell ourse

      8 min read

    • Article

      Deep Impact

      Dec 2, 2020

      Deep Impact
      4 min read

    • Article

      Up, Up And Away

      Sep 9, 2020

      Up, Up And Away
      6 min read

    • Article

      Serena Auñónchancellor

      Jun 25, 2019

      Serena Auñónchancellor
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Vastness Of Outer Space

      Mar 17, 2021

      The Vastness Of Outer Space
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Broken Boxes

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Broken Boxes - JS Evans

       ?cbook_preview_excerpt.html}\ۖu[x,mhYprD* 4./O|ITw34N>70黟~~o~~;>rڜ_C>=_M}l*lZ,C7\Zsv}ŋ6^-Ic]Cc7]c?PMh٦:穯r*v!vc|[^jSUʛ$g9N}[4vPXY"=zh'[;Z=)MvCTMjty4T\" _5ArNlǩxE:u>hy-OA^suNӀ{}Fx}o>߃6wn_ ~gj7uS%犌ȕ~]Ir!B=Au=}jyT/m >{HxOCإN|ݹ!qeׅ>mT$r | Hès\~ٶlsb[Y2l/T;@3^$ T0ʳ>w})MnR-5 RyH4VN߽zw]XJY: 0  0x6(ˮ~Clַ_!G3tk|D:?P =:9J)7p3|rmE^hr<'t.BHbN \&sloSw1}vkUbM7k[޶r$!w3tbO=mr`|Nc%}wj!}(%zCzXH4zog廟oVj/.c7ճ/ ^CrEwꠑd1pC cY tQMȨCacBNޚwN1 kk}Ǒlu9enp[| ctEpWmta{KD@a-ոn50^ӏ-#;ŽT}oK/!(}:kXg p}:nHtC<6-dD""aoF+%owmG-c`z{yk:| | l)- u{\c]A@#08!_h~r4/׋|Ð1vЭɉ4SrNh'X~,=N(`HPAN2 #B>C L ?g&DM@`g$:fޤﷂ_KPl4Vv:&q }uAɆJ5Ş|۞>lu>!> zK/S}OGhEq(k):ӝ'TSA8DZ4Ϊ&q6l@9 ƹEgolƜՏ)añ6IiWZ+[w/xwHk*jCqO  &O<>z (8ZM'25\*bjGјx.nĜ&kݍqH(OGp&jJ¥CI+^.Fh3vݮ%DZEHlDEX_{M0PeӤ17Lx\e",m:l?BaShg.6^Adp^K0sOobC p(NI4i\x+]3 $K֪'yE1P[g 3Kuͥo|(7z龋f*DzT.'0A(w̴}E>f_gx)ҹw[{\8p6)v `IJxB~ɖWN@,#i) ^+Y/Fow|P׳UaS'A'j̠r!}~()j' wn1iL}]qW+O@Dzڛkѡ?ܨHUZyM$l|TqjWKU~Uk|8L]*do[wSoVߧFr15TVZ`-;*8'RK,aI굏%Kz[T)퀧bX.6L v%\aO_)6~˳ة>65&Aa`j 5i/KŇB^,wNVش]fcǚ5[.GL -‘uYV9n]įҐYq`1Z$P]7|0͵Fl Ur@)ᚌ04`W}LZ:` {Ep!9#Y#j t_TfCK\hLQ}⍄hZi\뢪޴uXg]d6Lx-VE)T0PБ}ȩ!;"-ޕOư*f9|2H^ v$i}Ϊ$+Tch&pH<1ՔBչµ:&K|,KHעoŎ6TYrćTE!؃x_jqP * l槶( a]$Y#.3mt FhZ d<[dM̒^?PNisfÖx(:Ţ5Ej3Xj&V".E[Ҕժ7 StqnxI1Sd N02uPxhyjVe)ta^RN%5N^ <9V>hYHz66qd +LK*)[A^9W >ёJ&1XiG0l'NH0DIW`8/۩W˖OnE$0&y@>gSnvXIzWh d?pn}.Y2$8*qb ee[D@:+1ZVB^>4_T1}]2`*exN^i_Y7؟ݗ9HJoC7mw]hކUùg}ae N6ni* qoKk#-`Tۼ;k>mP2K^CU*Ϭ,Y=͠tItM 0%&5i-Hṭ]Rm;=5ͤJth` XS\4PM۪^6jŏ}ĺEB6\s8?߾}mg[Tr&*8]}"-ltbKUfeEM%oc":==96تA- H h SMի&iSPKn0R*] f]c @ِ|7w0Jmo9Bbj|ԧ idMަqYb1Tpj cyڥݧ <6L~Vy>q;c\ l7눰 ؼxԯ∘͈xǀzǛ;2~o-R6Ƴ0aNO#4$F6O9UIf l*d'JT!>oI@y׊a5/Sҩ>_\C ՟ૂj+x ^CjtFl[&:c5e\SOʣ|-8 ڼ>iV"j67ՆaYJ:㦬6?D˜ݺīºP`A= ,U8sZ*1_)-G\J dZr\ N+  K'|I%Rք8*#r\]Nwio]-0nx2WNenk1oݻt+z˟λhYS$֚-l#21x űjU>fZs1Zخ2Ϣ" ѿVߗeJuQ;k;ZNIo DNh1N@pq%N}YGX>J+P1:mb!/|a qT_+YX 'B-><'j%X6b+Hj1Y\OV%šFИQ}̙@Q#]}hYƱ4W26:-tANoCqZ?:5z:={Қ`]͞^WGpnx3c3L6Dh!^r[JVxS~ \+ʬa6aG`wlyKS(kyLl]YCzwEM9j谭OF| FIEK)3zQM^>qf VFR"_N@qexlS)h4]-1r>>Z8 q1wC(Rj?YR4X-#lq[PSu ن<{6n TWkϕx:sa#7xC5G"0Ryr״suI* 4 X.Bܺ4f&?or=6Anz~w1Xbelj1%CnU]䂱"6POucgFT)4jmM>yY.mhP>3DfLM& VjeM8 Ju]O ۣvf5l;sO.TF0԰5j{jM-tv.cԃOMq@%qld24Ҭ[g>烊$IwuR[ޗXOa v1 j܌zZ|)8mJq)*֟{GD˱v0 HT~F]Gla0^a97(bS-"IJ>s8V,pqL0l}MbфI#1\J4U?>Ai{lLM~Ģ /a1;2RWՍH`!]&jpuv$OnjR_NKPrsi|m5#2. +V3Oq0ݍ ,3av]2KOLGu::7ӈPlF7eyu ,yb#hNS'%T'tݙi5&ܶ5t0?HL1\Ji_zգxi8]G^5ɐX&L E6\ks=pzVsl |̦,h |T#Wc%9ۥI,dPaڶ/\_G-Z%y٢tf:il=Qh K6ijW2f.ݛGǛVI^"O{yv_[UmʈG)t'X~JZ6?ޯh&g_EcT_<6-ӓG+xO(0?+6"3h}f?sj\Q?7Ntίy&bŋe\g+ilZdVTVGYmtg@Ud$ hOdus4+S
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1