The Link

By Cheryl Lee

An accident in space, loss of communications due to the unexpected meteor shower and sudden sun's flares. How can NASA's control bring them home? The answer is lying with a dying teenager, can they do the impossible in the time left to them, to save four lives, but who or what can do the task? Then who is really in charge?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cheryl Lee
• Release date: Apr 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476211213

Cheryl Lee

A retired educator now living in the Pacific Northwest.Traveled through and visited forty-eight of the fifty United States, summered in Mexico, Canada, Great Britain-England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, visited western France, written plays for elementary, middle, and high school, taught classical fencing, volunteer reading, teaching puppetry, international artist with work displayed in greater London, Scotland, Wales, mid-west and western states.I will also go by my late husband's title name, Cheryl Lee DeLighton, to honour my late husband, C.N. Lee DeLighton and the stories he dictated to me. See zazzle.com/CherylLeeDesigns or contact:[e-mail]

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The Link

Cheryl Lee

Copyright 2012 by Cheryl Lee

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Chapter One

It had begun. The quiet hum of the circle of computers in the round room competed with excited breathing of the six people in the lab. It was a typical facility run by the government funding programs. Windowless, sterile white painted walls and a maze of blank corridors with special keyed doors going on for miles. The activity was in a gigantic, round room. The dim lighting shone on the dull grey of the metal machines flashing their colored lights. All twelve eyes watched the participants in the experiment behind the two-way mirror. The observers looked like white-robed monks, silently taking notes on their metal clip-boards. Behind the glass, partitioned from one another are twenty people ranging in age from eighty-five down to a young child. All are semi-reclined on tables, electrodes strapped to their foreheads, in semi-darkness except for a single greenish-blue beam focusing on their closed eyes. The wiring plugged into a console next to them; this in turn fed into the computers inside the observation lab. Ribbons of EEG tapes fall into separate baskets with the names of each of the participants monitored.

Five men watched their group of four selected subjects, standing aside is the woman in charge of the project. Each of the men has a special note-board for everyone assigned to them, she however has but one name on her list: Lisa; age five years, two months, three days, plus the name of the project-NEPTUNE, date: 11/3/.

"We lost Jason...at 15,000 feet: The tall, rather anemic, glassy-eyed scientist noted aloud. He switched a series of levers and pushed a button tagged Alpha, through the glass he watched as Jason’s table level itself and the tape flow changed its read-out. A shrug of his shoulders and the disappointed man was back to his other participants.

I’m losing Pamela now…mark, 17,000 feet. A balding, muscular observer stated, and the shut-off process went into effect. His voice was filled with frustration and displeasure. He turned his attention to his other responsibilities.

"Are we