MENTOR: Eden Plantz
ALTERNATE: Kerri
Sparks
TITLE: SURGE
CATEGORY/GENRE: YA
Sci-Fi
PITCH: Kenison has just surged back in
time to track the target she was trained to kill. In the next few hours,
Kenison will realize that target is her. The countdown begins: shoot…or go
rogue.
EXCERPT: Sharp objects. That’s the first thing that comes to mind the moment I stop surging. Knives. Needles. Razor Blades. A lightning strike to the head. All sharp. All piercing into every inch of flesh at an unfathomable rate of speed. This is the very definition of agony...and that’s describing it mildly.
Human beings aren’t
meant to time travel. They didn’t tell us that in training, but I know it now.
I’ve known it since the moment I began to surge. The moment I first felt the
Hurt. It Hurts to breathe. It Hurts to move. It Hurts to live. And
yet I’m standing here, in the middle of an overgrown forest, trying hard as
hell to suck the cold, tasteless air into my lungs enough times to survive;
because I did live.I am alive. I am alive, and I have managed to
survive another surge.
“Glad to see you made
it in one piece, Kenison,” a voice greets me. I open my eyes just as an
awkwardly tall male emerges from behind a tree. He attempts to smooth down the
disheveled amber hair that blows in the wind as he walks towards me. It’s my
partner, Micah. And he’s alive. Relief hits almost as hard as the surge did.
"How do you feel?" he grins.
I shrug. "Like I
just surged."
A faint laugh escapes
his mouth, but he is quick to contain it. Apparently my dismissal of a near
death experience is comical. "How's your head?"
"Still
attached."
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