Ian's Gang: Revenant

By Ian Kidd

On the anniversary of Carol Braithwaite's death, friends and family gather to pay their respects. None of them were expecting her to join them...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ian Kidd
• Release date: Dec 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370990870

Ian Kidd

I grew up in South Yorkshire, England, before emigrating to South Australia at the age of sixteen. My writing ambitions began as a child, when I became notorious in my class for writing short horror stories that would probably have them calling in the child psychologists nowadays! I have written everything from non-fiction ebooks to published short fiction, and served as script editor on two proposed horror feature film scripts for an LA based director. In terms of fiction I have written dozens of novellas, including more than 70 stories in the "Ian's Gang" sci-fi adventure series. I still live in Queensland, where I work as a freelance writer.

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IAN’S GANG – REVENANT

BY

IAN KIDD

Ian’s Gang (C) Ian Kidd 2016

Published by Smashwords

IAN’S GANG

Are:

Ian Williams

Matthew Parker

Steve Botham

Philip Vasquez

Sean O’Reilly

Commander Wilburts

Claire Braithwaite

Emma Holmes

CHAPTER ONE

He had always thought it damned strange that on the day she had died most of his thoughts had been with his best friend, his rival, the friend he loved and occasionally hated, instead of with her. Intellectually, Robert Stevens knew that there was a good reason for this. He had believed, erroneously as it later turned out, that Carol had died because of Matthew; that in his fury at her betrayal, he had struck her and killed her, remaining utterly oblivious to it even after the fact. For all of their differences, Robert had been unable to allow Matthew to go through that. He had been unable to allow Matthew to be destroyed by her – his – their betrayal, or to even be aware of what he had done, as that by itself would have finished him. Yet the result was that for days after Carol’s death, for days after the thing he had done to facilitate that lie, the unthinkable monstrosity and sacrilege he had committed in the name of his best friend, he had been unable to think of her at all except in the most abstract of senses, as a problem he needed to fix, fix for him. It had been days before he’d even cried for her, even though, in the end, she had belonged to him, not Matthew. She had chosen him.

Of all the things that Robert had found unpalatable since his awakening several months earlier – and boy were there a lot of those – the fact that it had all been for naught was the most difficult to swallow. Waking up to find you had lost the memory of years of your life? A picnic. Discovering you were a traitor not just to your friend, but to your King and your planet and a raving lunatic murderer to boot was but a walk in the park in comparison to finding out that everything you had done to the body of your beloved, the desecration he had unleashed on her in order to prevent the truth of your friend’s act from ever being realised even by him, was