Out of Nowhere (The Immortal Vagabond Healer Book 1) (36 page)
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Authors: Patrick LeClerc
And what if she did agree to my help? How long would she want to stay with me, and how much would that be for me, and how much would be the seductive addiction to the energy of youth?
I forced my misgivings back, focusing on the present. I wasn’t any more vulnerable than I had been, and none of these worries was anything that hadn’t been a concern for ages. And now, I felt truly connected. I was with a woman without hiding behind any secrets. That removed a weight I’d become so used to that I hadn’t noticed it in centuries.
Despite the uncertainty, life was good. I still worked too many hours for too little pay, subservient to supervisors like Marty, in a city where the drunks, gang members and junkies knew me by my first name. But things could have been a lot worse.
I could have wound up like Doors. Living a solitary life on a pedestal, ruling over people I though of as servants or cattle, rather than sharing the love and respect of friends and equals.
My life had to be better.
Sarah went to the fridge for another beer. She looked at me with a smile. I raised my empty glass and she got me another bottle too. She leaned over my shoulder to put the beer on the table, kissing me on the cheek. I smiled up at her, feeling a happy glow at the warmth of her smile, the mischievous gleam in her eyes.
This was better.
I slipped my arm around her waist, pulling her close. Grinning as I felt her soft curves settle against me. I kissed her cheek and her smiled widened.
Revealing some tiny, tiny lines.
This was better.
Wasn’t it?
PATRICK LECLERC MAKES GOOD USE of his history degree by working as a paramedic for an ever changing parade of ambulance companies in the Northern suburbs of Boston. When not writing he enjoys cooking, fencing and making witty, insightful remarks with career limiting candor.
In the lulls between runs on the ambulance—and sometimes the lulls between employment at various ambulance companies—he writes fiction.
You can find more of it at http://inkandbourbon.com/
Coming Soon!
Coming to Amazon from Firedance Books, Summer 2012…
EXPECT CIVILIAN CASUALTIES by Gary Bonn.
Jason has spent the last six years living wild on beaches. Now he’s seventeen and a feral girl walks into his life.
A girl with no name.
He calls her Anna. She’s fun, she’s kind—and she’s the most dangerous person in the world.
The most unusual love story, and a truly strange war story… Expect Civilian Casualties turns how we see the world upside down.
“Bonn’s writing is like biting into a lime—fresh, zesty and bitter-sweet. Seeing the world through Jason’s eyes is a revelation.”
Louise Cole, WRM
“A story about a boy on the edge of society who finds love and belonging in the midst of chaos and horror. A delight.”
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of Altered States
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THE WALKER’S DAUGHTER by Janet Allison Brown.
When her mother dies at the hands of a silver-haired figure in black, six-year-old spirit-walker Cora Bloux hides out in her own body. Twenty years later she’s still there, fiercely maintaining an outwardly stable, conventional life.
But when her own daughter is hit by a car, Cora is forced to spirit-walk again—and discovers that the spirit world has been waiting for her.
In the extraordinary, fast-paced world of spirit-walkers, body-swappers, rock bands and second chances, Cora must discover her true self and learn the ordinary lessons of courage, trust and love.
To see the world as it really is, sometimes you have to close your eyes and... walk.
‘This supernatural begins with a bang.’
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‘Intense and enlightening.’
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