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    0-Time: PUSH*, The 2012 Trilogy III
    0-Time: PUSH*, The 2012 Trilogy III
    0-Time: PUSH*, The 2012 Trilogy III
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    0-Time: PUSH*, The 2012 Trilogy III

    By Peter Galarneau, Jr

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    Sensationalism. Everybody wants it. Unfortunately, there are plenty of pushers that would happily trade life for lies just for one opportunity to control the masses. And Michael Arden is not going to let that happen...

    As an investigative video journalist and documentarian, Arden has stumbled onto the dark secrets of a new recreational drug that programs euphoria into the minds of its users. The pharmaceutical company Phoenix International is to blame but Arden may not have enough time to reveal the hidden truth on Fox News Morning.

    The third volume in The 2012 Trilogy is, itself, a trilogy.0-TIME: PUSH* (Part I of the third volume) is set one year after the heroic encounters near El Castillo in the historic Mayan ruins of Tulum.

    Enjoy PUSH* as a novella that stands alone. Read it now without prior 2012 Trilogy knowledge or...Continue your journey that began with a car chase on a dark Kansas road in 2007.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Galarneau, Jr
    Release dateJan 29, 2011
    ISBN9780982512968
    0-Time: PUSH*, The 2012 Trilogy III
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    Peter Galarneau, Jr

    Peter Galarneau Jr.'s works include the YA novels: "Dr. One" and "Crazy House"; and "The Edge of Hell", "The Worms Within Us", "Muldoon's Nursery" and the multi-volume saga "The 2012 Trilogy". He is a professor of media studies and public relations at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He lives with his wife and cats (Foot Foot, Theodora, Braveheart) within the comfort of the West Virginia hills,

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      0-Time - Peter Galarneau, Jr

      0-Time: PUSH*

      The 2012 Trilogy III

      A novel by

      Peter Galarneau Jr.

      e-Book Copyright © 2011 by Peter Galarneau, Jr.

      All rights reserved

      Published by PTW Publishing Company at Smashwords

      e-Book ISBN: 978-0-9825129-6-8

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the author or the author’s designee.

      0-Time:PUSH* is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents either are the culmination of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, places or people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      This book is available in print from http://www.0-Time.com

      In memory of

      Arah Edgel Galarneau Cox Maloney

      Fiction by Peter Galarneau Jr.:

      The Edge of Hell (1994, 2010)

      The Worms Within Us (1994, 2010)

      Blood Barters (1996, 2010)

      Muldoon’s Nursery (1997)

      The Cubit: The 2012 Trilogy I (2008, 2009)

      The Djed: The 2012 Trilogy II (2009, 2010)

      0-Time: PUSH*, The 2012 Trilogy III (2010, 2011)

      *****

      Foreword

      The 2012 Trilogy

      Ever since the print publication of the first book in The 2012 Trilogy, The Cubit, I have been asked numerous times if I know how the world is going to end. I always answer Of course. Don’t you?

      It ends the way it began, I say. With a Big Bang. With the galactic mouth opening up and spewing forth any number of immortal humanoids. With a snake and a tree and an apple. Nobody I tell this to believes such nonsense. They want me to tell them the truth.

      Except, really, that’s not what The 2012 Trilogy is all about. It’s not about truth. It’s about antithesis. And, therefore, I promise not to rain great chunks of earth or sky or ocean onto the heads of my characters by story’s end. I promise that I will not crush our great planet in one fell swoop that cheats the intelligence or copies cardboard climaxes so often found in doomsday adventures. My Trilogy does not end with a magnificent techno-ark built by clandestine scientists who will use it to ride the wave of another great flood to a moon or planet or through some hyper-dimensional space rip. I can’t promise you that there will not be fire and brimstone—every apocalyptic story has had little bit of that in it—but I can promise that you will not be cheated. And this is because the Trilogy is about people…the good ones and the bad. Antithesis.

      With this three volume adventure, thriller, horror, sci-fi, fantasy (it’s been categorized in different ways by different readers which thrills me to no end) you will meet common people thrust into uncommon circumstances. The date, December 21, 2012, looms as the Trilogy’s forced moment of climax, not as the end unto itself that almost all End of Days stories tend to promote. If you are looking for verification that Jesus or Muhammad or Buddha will materialize and save the hapless humans on this date, I cannot help you. If you want to get an inkling as to why humans even think this way, take the journey that the Trilogy offers, decide for yourself, live with the characters. You are any one of them and all of them:

      You are the college dropout, the surfer and the non-believer—if it can’t be categorized and statistically rendered then it isn’t real. You are the victim of an adulterant, of psychological spousal abuse, a soft person whose lost love for life forces only one, singular belief: that paradise does exist but only in the form of sandy beaches and crashing waves. You are one who has lived a hundred years in the body of a fifty-year-old, a self-loathing beggar whose one dark secret has driven him to the brink of financial and spiritual ruin. You are young and lost and trying to find your way through the blight of bad jobs, bad bosses and just plain bad timing. You are an ex-marine, a video journalist, a desert tour guide, a puppet. Yes, a puppet. Strings attached. Fate determined. Manipulated. Lied to…

      But hopeful. You can’t give up. Especially since you’ve found out the truth. Not because Peter Galarneau Jr. has made it a plot point but because, like the Trilogy’s characters, you have found the dark side, you have seen the cubits not only in battle but also in yourself and you have fought them with the weapons provided to you by centuries of others so that you may live.

      You are Billy, Joel, Stephanie, Janine, Marcy, John, Cooper and Michael. And you are a little bit of Richard Manson as well. We all are to some degree. Evil.

      Sorry if I’ve ruined what you might have thought to be the natural progression of any story related to the Mayan prophesized End Date. I just can’t see such a simple solution to our 0-Time and I hope that the Great Spirit does not either. I can tell you, however, that there will be a Big Bang, one that ruptures the souls of innocent lives and places hope on the precipice of fear. I can tell you that the stars and animals (and you, perhaps) have always been and always will be connected to any beginning or end that we all share. And yes, snakes and trees and apples as metaphors are promised to be woven intricately into the thousands of words that follow this Trilogy.

      How

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