SHIFT mini-excerpt #2
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I can't even begin to describe how much work I have to do, and how well it isn't flowing, so today I'm taking the easy way out: a mini-excerpt from Shift (March 1, 2010)!
Warning: the following contains a minor spoiler. Read at your own risk!
We all screamed. The van swerved. I rocked violently from side to side as Dodd tried to control the vehicle. And I could only stare at the bolder deeply embedded in the hood, pinning the thick canvas it had been carried in.
The van swerved left. Dodd over-compensated. We swerved right, and I braced my good arm against the dashboard. Dodd swerved again. The van careened off the road and smashed head-on into a trunk at the edge of the tree line.
For a moment, there was an eerie, shocked silence. Then Des started screaming.
I took a second to assess my injuries-a single, rapidly forming lump on the side of my head-then twisted to check on everyone else. “Are you guys okay?”
Manx nodded, dazed, one hand patting the screaming infant. Kaci peeked up from behind the backpack in her lap, and after a moment of consideration, she nodded too. “I think so-”
That’s when Teo’s door was ripped completely off the car.
I can't even begin to describe how much work I have to do, and how well it isn't flowing, so today I'm taking the easy way out: a mini-excerpt from Shift (March 1, 2010)!
Warning: the following contains a minor spoiler. Read at your own risk!
We all screamed. The van swerved. I rocked violently from side to side as Dodd tried to control the vehicle. And I could only stare at the bolder deeply embedded in the hood, pinning the thick canvas it had been carried in.
The van swerved left. Dodd over-compensated. We swerved right, and I braced my good arm against the dashboard. Dodd swerved again. The van careened off the road and smashed head-on into a trunk at the edge of the tree line.
For a moment, there was an eerie, shocked silence. Then Des started screaming.
I took a second to assess my injuries-a single, rapidly forming lump on the side of my head-then twisted to check on everyone else. “Are you guys okay?”
Manx nodded, dazed, one hand patting the screaming infant. Kaci peeked up from behind the backpack in her lap, and after a moment of consideration, she nodded too. “I think so-”
That’s when Teo’s door was ripped completely off the car.