Jump Discontinuity

By Renee Frey

Short story: A pilot fights against his military training to follow his conscience as he uncovers a treasonous plot. He must not only go against his friends' advice but trust the word of someone actively working against him.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Authors 4 Authors Publishing Cooperative
• Release date: Jan 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781644770320

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Jump Discontinuity

Renee Frey

Authors 4 Authors Publishing

Marysville, WA, USA

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

©2019 Renee Frey

First published in Between Heroes and Villains: A Superpower Anthology ©2017

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without prior written permission from the publisher, except for use in brief quotations as permitted by United States copyright law.

Published by Authors 4 Authors Publishing

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Marysville, WA 98270

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E-book ISBN: 978-1-64477-032-0

Cover photo by James Kresser.

Cover design by Renee Frey.

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This title has been rated 14+ appropriate for teens and contains:

intense violence

moderate language

For more information on our rating system, please, visit our Content Guide.

Dedication

In loving memory of Ret. Major James Andrew Donald

My first alpha reader and my own personal super hero

(And a pretty awesome Dad).

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Jump Discontinuity

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Jump Discontinuity

Calculations flashing across his vision, Captain James Andrews set down the stealth tiltrotor about one hundred yards from the industrial complex. A line dotted away, making an arcing graph. Just five degrees variance, and he would have crashed the aircraft. He cut the power to the engines and nodded. Three other heroes, clad in midnight blue, leaped out and ran for the complex. Andrews unfastened his safety harness and jogged after them.

More calculations swirled about his hazel eyes as they ran. It was as if someone had grafted a supercomputer into his retina. After five years, he was getting better at ignoring them