Sci Shorts

By JD Rodgers

This book is a small collection of 10 Science Fiction short stories. Each of these short store is an original written by myself

• Language: English
• Publisher: JD Rodgers
• Release date: Nov 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463556443

JD Rodgers

Hi there. I am the new author added to your book shelf. I am not up there with the best selling authors...Yet. But I'm on the way there. I'm a 56 year old writer from Philadelphia. I write fiction. I'm somewhat of a poet and a blogger. Hi, I am JD Rodgers.

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GREETINGS FELLOW EARTHLINGS

Thank you for purchasing and reading my latest eBook Sci Shorts.

I hope you are enjoying reading this eBook as much as I enjoyed

writing it. And I hope you’ll enjoy it again. And, tell your friends

and loved ones about the book and share the link from which you

discovered this eBook.

This eBook is an original work and is exclusively available

on http://www.smashwords.com. I would ask that

you do not copy any part of this eBook in any way.

Again, thank you and good thoughts to my friends.

JD Rodgers

INTO THE DARKNESS

My surroundings are seemingly taking on a grayish shade as I move forward. I stop. I’m looking to either side of me. Am I going blind? I turn to look behind me. Everything before is a dull faint color seemingly overcome with the darkened gray you would see as dusk gives way to night. Taking a couple of steps backward, the darkened gray becomes grayer. I’m scared. My heart is pounding in my chest. Why is this happening? For that matter, what is happening? I look around me once again. On either side, it’s darker than it is ahead of me. It’s like I’m standing right on the time line’s edge between day time and night time. I turn once again. My breath is once again caught in my throat and I feel as if my heart stopped beating for just a moment. I’m in shock of what I see before me. Nothing. I see nothing before me. Pitch black. Darkness. The kind you would see with your eyes wide open in a dark room with no windows or light source.

The blackness seems to expand the entire width of the street and even beyond the sidewalks on either side. Beyond there, everything I can see has the appearance of midnight darkness, even with the noonday sun high overhead. I take another single step forward, and I suddenly feel claustrophobic. I try but I can’t walk back into the light. I’m