Zephyr's Crossing
By Philip Kiely
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Two hundred years in the future, fifteen-year-old Zephyr hides from the conquering Zarxï. He is likely the last human being on earth. Using technology ordinary teenager Anna and her friends can’t even imagine in 2014, Zephyr—knowing the risks of changing history—reaches back in time for assistance. As events unfold and peril from the Zarxï intensifies in both time periods, Anna will become an unlikely heroine and Zephyr will navigate through present and past to reach for the world he lost.
This captivating first novella by fifteen-year-old Philip Kiely was written in honor of his sister’s successful completion of her elementary school’s spelling challenge. This story is for her, but it is also for you. Enjoy!
Philip Kiely
Philip J. Kiely is a junior at Valley High School in West Des Moines, IA. When not writing, he enjoys playing Magic The Gathering, building with Lego, and spending time with his family and cats. If he could orchestrate a dinner party with writers he admires, he would invite Hank and John Green, aka the Vlogbrothers, J. K. Rowling, Christopher Paolini, Carl Hiaasen, and Dave Barry for a picnic in the shadow of London's Tower Bridge.
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Zephyr's Crossing - Philip Kiely
Zephyr's Crossing
by Philip Kiely
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Chapter One
Zephyr, out of breath and dripping with perspiration, ran into the cavernous chamber that he called home, slamming the door behind him. As he brushed his long, unkempt black hair out of his eyes, a loud, dull thud echoed through the bunker. Outside, the Zarxï beast slammed headfirst into the heavy metal door. After three more attempts, it lost interest and loped off in search of other prey. It was not likely, Zephyr thought, that it would find any. He knew from his increasingly sparse pickings on scavenging missions that the earth was getting picked clean by the ravenous beasts that roamed outside. Ordinarily, such thoughts would send him deep into depression, his usual state of mind. Today, though, was not a day for despair, but a day for hope.
The cause for this hope glowed softly in his rough, calloused hands. A faint beep emitted from the basketball sized silver orb. He examined it more closely and saw the faint etching Time Capsule: Multi-Use 200
just above the equator of softly glowing golden light. The same light filled the interior, shining through the device to give it an opalescent sheen.
Zephyr gave the top a clockwise twist, and it popped off, filling the usually dimly lit bunker with a radiant golden glow. This confirmed that the strange metal orb was indeed what he thought it was—a time messaging capsule. He let out an exorbitant shout of elation.
Another thud echoed as one of the many monstrous beasts roaming outside slammed into the fortifications around Zephyr’s bunker, trying in vain to get inside. Zephyr had grown to appreciate the sporadic bombardment, as the pandemonium was a welcome interruption to the monotony of silence that engulfed the bunker. He once again counted the fifty-seven steps as he walked to the far end of the bunker, where the mattress that served as his bed lay next to the wooden box that was his desk. Shuffling through the piles on his floor, the spoils of dozens of resource runs, he found two of his treasures, a dirty marker and a torn piece of paper. He began writing.
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Anna was relived that it was Saturday. School was getting harder and harder as teachers pressed to get in all the necessary material before the final exams in two weeks. Today, though, she could relax with Mark and Lynn, on the hour’s drive from Milaca to Minneapolis, the nearest metropolis, a monthly tradition that the three friends had shared on the first Saturday of each month ever since Mark and Lynn had gotten their driver’s licenses, about a year ago.
As usual, Mark drove on the way there, and Lynn would drive back. They were debating where to go as the old red Ford pickup truck bounced along the road to Minneapolis.
"We should go