Tor Maddox: Disarmed

By Liz Coley

Tor Maddox's first summer job offers minimum wage and lousy hours. Who knew saving lives could be one of the benefits?

This short prequel story by the internationally best-selling author of Pretty Girl-13 will introduce readers to Tor Maddox, a heroine for our times. Tor's adventures continue in the full-length novels TM1: Unleashed, TM2: Embedded, and TM3: Mistaken. Includes bonus material from the series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Liz Coley
• Release date: Oct 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311341358

Liz Coley

Liz Coley's short fiction has appeared in Cosmos magazine and speculative fiction anthologies. Her passions beyond reading and writing include singing, photography, and baking. She plays competitive tennis locally in Ohio to keep herself fit and humble. With a background in science, Liz follows her interest in understanding "the way we work" down many interesting roads. Pretty Girl-13's journey into the perilous world of dissociative identity disorder is one of them.

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TOR MADDOX: DISARMED

A short story

by Liz Coley

Copyright Liz Coley 2014

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TOR MADDOX: DISARMED

by Liz Coley

None of this would have happened if I hadn’t walked in on my parents in the family room. No—not at all what you’re thinking. Everyone was fully dressed, feet on the floor. I walked in on them having a heated discussion about me and my future. After I’d listened for a minute from the kitchen, just out of sight.

Mom was saying, When I was their age I could sling a burger with the best of them.

Dad replied, I’m sure you could, Sunshine, and drain a basket of fries with that. Is that really what you think Tor and Rody should be doing with their last gasp of freedom?

From the yelp, I think Mom swatted Dad. Last gasp? At fifteen?

You know what I mean, he said. "Look, I know. I volunteered as a mini-paramedic all through high school. I’m just reluctant to accept that a carefree childhood’s becoming a thing