Ambergris: An Electric Eclectic Book

By Rush Leaming

As part of The Electric Eclectic literary initiative out of the U.K. comes a new short story from American author Rush Leaming:

An uncertain 22-year-old stepping out of his comfort zone.
An elderly woman with a vibrant past on a long ride home.
They cross paths on a bus trip along the U.S. Southeastern coastline, a journey that takes both of them on a shocking and unexpected ride.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rush Leaming
• Release date: Feb 1, 2018

Rush Leaming

RUSH LEAMING has done many things including spending 15+ years in film/video production working on such projects as The Lord of the Rings films. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina. His first novel, Don't Go, Ramanya, a literary thriller set in Thailand, was published in the Fall of 2016 and reached number one on Amazon. He is currently working on his next novel, to be published in Fall of 2018, entitled The Whole of the Moon, set in the Congo at the end of the Cold War. His short stories have appeared in Notations, 67 Press, The Electric Eclectic, Lightwave and 5k Fiction. He has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Zaire, Thailand, Spain, Greece, England and Kenya. He currently lives in South Carolina.

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AMBERGRIS

by

RUSH LEAMING

Copyright © Rush Leaming 2017

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Introduction

I’ve always liked long trips by bus or train; you never know who you might meet or what you might see. Unfortunately, here in the U.S. (outside of the Eastern corridor of Boston-New York-D.C.), it has become less and less common to travel that way. This is a story about a young man who steps outside of his comfort zone, and some of what he discovers along the way.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Table of Contents

part 1

part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

About The Author

Other Books By RUSH LEAMING

part 1

Daniel had never ridden on a bus. Not once in his twenty-two years of life. Vans, minivans, trains, trucks, and cars, lots of cars—especially like the black Lincoln Town Car he now sat in—but never a bus, not even a boxy yellow school one.

From the back seat, he looked out his window at the low-slung aluminum building across the parking lot. It was more like a shack. He had expected a bus station to be bigger. It shared the building with a John Deere tractor shop, and there was only a small square rusted sign near the front door that said East Coast Stages. Under a blurry sky, thick and sticky with the humidity of late summer, two large buses idled on the side of the building, next to yellow rope lines where a small crowd had begun to gather. He saw one white man in a stained and torn white T-shirt, red boils on his face, his hands yanking his own oily salt-and-pepper hair.