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    12 Hours in Hell
    12 Hours in Hell
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    12 Hours in Hell

    By Edward Thames

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    While making a beer run four teenage party animals find themselves propelled into an apocalyptic nightmare when they inadvertently drive through a quantum vortex.

    KEITH, a burly, black-haired, car freak; PHIL, a laid-back, easy going, underachiever; RENEE, a raven-haired wild child with an IQ of 193; and KENNY BOY, the weed fiend, stoner supreme quickly learn the party’s over when they are attacked by a hoard of shadow devils; vicious malformed little demons whose only purpose is to kill and eat any living thing left in the world.

    After a brutal firefight they manage to outrun the demonic swarm. Relentlessly hunted by hoards of shadow devils they race through a cold dead world trying to keep one step ahead. Armed with guns taken from an abandoned armory but running out of gas they fight to stay alive.

    Freaked out and struggling to survive they discover they went missing years earlier and were considered dead. They learn that archeologist discovered the actual Gates of Barathrum and opened them unleashing Hell on earth on Halloween Night, 2013.

    Renee is the brains behind the bunch. She figures out that the weird incident earlier must have been a dimensional vortex and their only chance is to go through the vortex again. She rationalizes it will return them back to their time and make it all go away. They speculate the vortex opens every twelve hours.

    Now all they have to do is survive twelve hours in hell and hope she's right.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdward Thames
    Release dateJul 5, 2013
    ISBN9781301271146
    12 Hours in Hell
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    Edward Thames

    Edward was born in Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana. He grew up moving from place to place never living in the same location more than two years. He attended various Universities majoring in Pre-Med, creative writing, film making and foreign languages. After winning several writing awards he discovered Information Technology and achieved thirty-four separate technical certifications. He has worked as a contract technical trainer for the last ten years. He has written seven screenplays and five novels. He presently lives in Spring, Texas.

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      12 Hours in Hell - Edward Thames

      12 Hours in hell

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      Edward Thames

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      * * * * *

      DEDICATION

      To my A girls. To Saint A, who has been with me from the beginning and Ava, a child of my child who I will probably never see or know but who I love anyway.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENT

      To the many whose discouragement was pronounced and spiteful I simply restate what I told you then; Kiss my ass!

      * * * * *

      12 Hours in Hell

      * * * * *

      CHAPTER 1

      OCTOBER 21, 2013

      The full moon’s radiant moonlight accentuates the jagged edges of a monstrous quarry pit. Beyond the edge the moonlight illuminates a narrow road that winds down into the vast darkness. The faint glow of light emanates from several hundred meters deep inside the gloom. The sounds of heavy equipment penetrate the darkness as if gigantic monsters are battling deep within the subterranean folds of earth.

      The end of the road looks like a movie set. Huge lights illuminate the scene. There are numerous pieces of earth moving equipment ripping strips of rock from the walls of the pit. A crew of engineers and operators work intently as the process of uncovering the past continues twenty-four seven.

      The focus of all the work is a colossal black metal door; a single flawless surface. So far they had managed to uncover about eighty percent and the preliminary measurements indicated it was one hundred twenty meters vertically and eighty meters horizontally.

      The surface was covered with arcane symbols. The odd thing about the symbols was they seemed to be protruding from the inside as if someone or something hammered the inside to create a reversed image on the exposed surface.

      Several archeologists were working under a canopy near the site as crews worked to complete the job of uncovering the door.

      Dr. Bernard Lovejoy was standing just outside the canopy staring at the immense surface waiting for the results of the Microstructure Characterizer Software. He hoped if they could identify microstructural features using standard methods of material characterization such as ASTM grain size measurements as well as linear and angular measurements so they could get a line on just what the doors were made of. So far all the results from the XL3t alloy analyzer proved incomprehensible, like they were analyzing a metal from another planet.

      Dr. Lovejoy was one of the last of the true sixties’ hippies. He still wore tie-died t-shirts, blue jeans and sandals when he could get away with it. For the first time since the sixties he was stylish. His grey ponytail extended half way down his back. He was a slender man with that athletic look that seems to belie the advancing years. An idealist, he believed there was right and wrong as clearly as there was black and white. He refused to acquiesce to the belief that everything was really a shade of gray.

      He studied for the priesthood until he discovered Biblical Archeology and found hanging out in exotic locations and finding treasure much more rewarding than being a priest. However, he was dedicated to finding truth in the past and verifying that truth with the word of God.

      Phillip Canne walked over holding the latest report from the MCS and handed it to Dr. Lovejoy. Phillip waited while Dr. Lovejoy absorbed the results.

      Phillip had been working with Dr. Lovejoy since graduate school. He had always wanted to be an engineer. He wanted to design and build stuff. He didn’t care what it was as long as he could make it work. Then the recession hit and there was very little to design and even less being built. It was while he was in graduate school that he had to take an elective just for the credit to as the counselor put it round out his resume. So he enrolled in what he considered a blow off course where he only had to show up to get four hours credit. Archeology 101 which was being taught by Dr. Lovejoy and it was a long way from being a blow off course. It was in that class that Phillip found his true calling, reverse engineering. In other words he was gifted at tearing things up to find out how they worked.

      Dr. Lovejoy was considered downright weird by most of the campus but at the same time very cool.

      Dr. Lovejoy looked at Phillip. According to the analysis this material has the tensile strength of Alloy 1090 and the heat resistance of 17-4PH or 15-5PH. What kind of metal has the tensile strength of over 220,000 psi and the heat resistance of over 2200 degrees?

      I don’t know. Look at the estimated carbon dating results.

      100,000 years give or take a millennium? Anything on the hieroglyphs? Asked Dr. Lovejoy.

      So far it’s a toss-up between proto-elamite and a very early Sumerian. Replied Phillip.

      So the carbon dating is realistic.

      It would seem so but the technology to create this type of metal has only been developed in the last twenty years. The closest thing we have is titanium.

      As far as we know. Commented Dr. Lovejoy.

      Phillip smiled, As far as we know today.

      Let me know when you get something on the hieroglyphs. If that is what they are?

      Ask and ye shall receive. Answered a female

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