XERIA: Demon Atomizer

By John Andrew Karr

Xeria's home planet of Iegaké had nearly been purged of life by demons with greater technology and firepower. Their spaceships hold hostage not only the paltry number of survivors -- including her father -- but the entire solar system. If Xeria does not return from a neighboring planet with the Drayden Dust that allows demons to dream, Mizk will destroy the entire planet, and prey upon the next ....

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Andrew Karr
• Release date: Apr 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224487370

John Andrew Karr

Seeking out the strange and spectacular, John Andrew Karr is a writer, IT worker and family guy residing near the southern coast of North Carolina.

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XERIA

Demon Atomizer

John Andrew Karr

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THE UNIVERSE, INCLUDING those regions that bend beyond the realm of detection, is rife with immense galaxies whose second greatest purpose may be to disrupt the mind-numbing expanse of nothingness. As vast as galaxies are, the discernable matter inside them accounts for only ten percent of the entire cosmos. The other ninety percent is empty ― raw, black space. Dark Matter.

Galaxies are not disturbed by this 9:1 ratio. They do not breathe, but live and die just the same as they push through space and time. Rotation on a truly cosmic scale ‘flattens’ mature galaxies into predominately disc-like formations. The elderly have lost the spiral gaseous arms from which celestial bodies are born. In the relatively youthful, masses of infantile gaseous haze have yet to develop into discernable shapes, but the nebulae in them have created enough stars to glow with the promise of their elders.

Streaking on paths unknown are comet-like galaxies of indiscriminate age, where black holes wrench all matter to one side and into crushing maws. Mindless predators, the black holes will not be sated, even after the last body has been consumed. As a final solution, they cannibalize one another. 

All galaxies, regardless of age, are populated with mortal stars and planets. Stars burn with ferocity, unconcerned with the trivialities of the lowly planets trapped in their gravitational fields.

Space dust glows quasar-blue as we approach a galaxy in the shape of a rare figure eight. Among the billions of stars inside it, one in particular draws our attention. Twelve planets revolve around this sun. 

Four of these twelve planets support life ... and death.

THE RIVERS OF PLANET Iegaké, once so pure and clear, now run like opened veins through blackened fields, charred forests and crumbling cities. The blood and bodies