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The following page is in the Sci Fi genre.
Kita
wasn’t supposed to come home—ever.
Molly
rushed through the crowded transportation station, ignoring
the sensation of gooseflesh rippling across her arms. Kita, her sister, left
seven years ago on an Abraham Project—a missionary pilgrimage six-hundred light
years away. It was a life-time commitment…supposedly. The telecom said Kita
would need help getting home. But why?
“Molly
Jacobsen, report to gabardine info mation kiosk.” The announcement aired across
the mass com system, so every person in the transportation station heard it in
their personal com link. Molly reached up behind her ear and pressed her own
com link. The message repeated in her hearing only. Her stomach already felt
tight, now it was cramping.
Gabardine information kiosk? She looked around for
something—anything that had any resemblance to what gabardine might be. The
communication-translation software missed the mark for the word, “information.”Perhaps
it missed translating the color and called it gabardine. Was that green? Grey?
Brownish-green? Who knows? It made no sense.
Molly
half ran, half walked through the T. Station. Fear drove her on. She calculated
Kita had been on the planet ten months, maybe eleven, before the decision was
made to send her back home. Why? What went wrong? You’ve always been the stronger person, braver too. Still, it was a
three-year suspended hibernation trip—how could anybody survive two suspensions
in seven years? It just does NOT make
sense!The selection process was so thorough. Kita was one of the top candidates.
Why would they send her back?
Anger
boiled in Molly’s gut. This pilgrimage made her mad from the get go. She knew
her sister would go the minute she started talking about it. It was so like her.
Molly
believed in helping the underdog, the helpless innocents, the oppressed.That’s
why she became a law enforcer. But to trek across the universe for people who
needed help with fertility and at the
expense of her own family, no way! Not to mention forever leaving her twin—
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Last weeks courageous author was Jenny Smith. Her newest book is titled; Seriously God? I'm Doing Everything I Know to do and It's NOT Working. You can connect with Jenny at the following links. Website: keepinginstride.com Facebook: keepinginstride Twitter: keepinginstride
