What A Gift

By Annalisa Conti

This is the fifteenth episode of THE W SERIES, a collection of short stories.

W, what the hell are you doing on that truck’s roof? Where do you think you’re going? What are you hoping to find, or maybe not to find?

How will this screwed-up story end? #SeasonFinale

• Language: English
• Publisher: Annalisa Conti
• Release date: Dec 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781732690950

Annalisa Conti

Annalisa Conti lives and writes in New York City, where she has been spending the last few years of her life. She is a woman who writes about women, real human beings facing drama and challenges, finding happiness and rewards, succeeding and failing. Normal people. If you like Jane Austen for her honest humor, Gillian Flynn for her descent into human darkness, and Elena Ferrante for her focus on storytelling, you will find Annalisa’s tales wildly entertaining. She recently published her third novel, NINE. It is a modern tale on motherhood, a unique story about pregnancy, its hidden fears, and its untold truths. Her second novel, AFRICA, was an Amazon Kindle #1 in its category. Reviewers say it is a “fascinating” “astonishing” story of a life-changing journey to the end of the world, “powerful and dramatic, and well integrated into this incredible “decorum””. Annalisa is also the author of ALL THE PEOPLE, a novel built around a woman’s secrets. Reviewers say “you cannot put it down”, it is “capturing reader’s attention since the very first lines”, and it has a “very deep and accurate psychological perspective”. She publishes quarterly episodes in the collection of short stories THE W SERIES, which describe the world of W, a superhero like no other. Reviewers say it is "a classic action story but somehow very different from anything else", with a "writing style packed of action and visual clues as if it was taken right out of a Marvel comic strip". The first ten episodes of THE W SERIES have been collected in W IS FOR WONDER.

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WHAT A GIFT

Copyright © 2019 Annalisa Conti

Cover art by Valeria Frustaci, 2019

All rights reserved.

Published by AEC Publishing LLC in New York

www.annalisaconti.com

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Acknowledgements

To Emmanuel, who always believes in me.

What A Gift

Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, test, test, test.

Jay, we’ve already used my helmet to communicate. You know it works, I try to hold back my laughter.

Better safe than sorry, he responds from the entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel, on the Manhattan side.

I sigh on the other side of the tunnel, hiding behind highway pillars on the coast of New Jersey. I am ready to finally shed light on the connection between School4All, an apparently exemplary school food supply and meal delivery company, and Hospital Waste Recycling Inc. I’ve been following hazardous waste trucks all over town, from the hospitals on the east and west sides to