A Day In The Life

By Greg Ellis

Police Captain Mike Russell has more than thieves, killers, and miscellaneous common criminals to worry about, he's got Pulses. Superpowered vigilantes, or worse, criminals, Pulses transformed society, but not for the better.

After two disastrous wars trying to control them, Capt. Russell finds himself standing on the brink of a possible Third Pulse.

In a tense standoff between the police and a drug-dealing gang involving Pulses, Russell must decide what side he stands on as the emergence of a new wave of Pulses, possibly more powerful than either of the first two, forces his hand in what could be the opening round of a new war that could prove more disastrous than the last two.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Greg Ellis
• Release date: Feb 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465895295

Greg Ellis

A native-born Californian transplanted to Ohio then back to California and currently to Oklahoma. I've been a technical writer, an administration manager, a security guard at a federal laboratory, a WalMart department manager, and am currently a technical writer again. I write science fiction and horror and have been writing since I was in grade school. I've also designed and written games, particularly the play-by-email game Fire On The Suns. I'm 55, white, single, live in Broken Arrow, OK, and like beer, dogs, good food, cheese, chocolate, fishing, and writing.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE

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G.W. Ellis

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A DAY IN THE LIFE

by

G.W. Ellis

The whole day had gone to hell in a hand basket faster than grease through a goose if one were to ask Mike Russell.

Unfortunately, no one was asking. They just continued to hand him problems. The day had just gone straight to hell and the whole situation was chasing it as fast as it could to get there.

Russell checked his tactical map. He had three officers down and another smeared along twenty-five yards of asphalt. That one was being scooped up with trowels. It's what happened when a normal tangled with a hostile Pulse. The man should have known better.

Probably did, Russell sighed. He just got in the freak's way and couldn't get out in time.

It had been the story of his life, his career with the San Francisco PD since the time of the First Pulse.

He checked his watch, noting the positions of the SWAT units on his computer's display. The three-dimensional holographic image projected by his smart phone was one of the many benefits the Pulses had brought, but he almost wished for the old days of