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    The Bullet
    The Bullet
    The Bullet
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    The Bullet

    By Jeremy Tyrrell

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    A Bullet, forged within an ammunition factory, is on a path to its destiny. It faces a confusing time, trials and anguish as well as elation and shame as it comes to discover its true purpose. How will the Bullet face up to its ultimate task?
    The characters it comes up against, from the Foreman to the Courier, from the Merchant to the Client, from the Assassin to the Target, reveal more about the world around it than about the Bullet itself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeremy Tyrrell
    Release dateJun 22, 2014
    ISBN9781311827814
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    Jeremy Tyrrell

    Jeremy Tyrrell lives in Melbourne, Australia. He spends his morning getting started, his afternoon slowing down and his evening with his family.As a Software Engineer, he uses writing as a way to escape the drudgery of sitting in front of a screen and tapping away at a keyboard. The irony, however, is lost on him.He has finished Tedrick Gritswell of Borobo Reef, and is looking toward doing side projects such as the Paranormology series, Iris of the Shadows and Atlas, Broken.Jeremy's Author Website can be found at jeztyr.com or jtyrrell.com

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      The Bullet - Jeremy Tyrrell

      The Bullet

      By Jeremy Tyrrell

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Jeremy Tyrrell

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Dedication

      For my brother Liam.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Afterword

      About the Author

      More Works

      Chapter One

      In the beginning, the world was a raging firestorm, formless, swirling and blindingly hot. A living creature would have been destroyed in the hellish maelstrom, charred beyond belief, cooked and broiled and roasted until it caught fire, adding its own stored energy into the rest of the universe.

      Light was everywhere, everything. It filled all voids. Any vacuoles left by a rippling surge of heat acted as intensifying prisms, marking out the only real contrast in the bubbling cosmos, appearing one second only to be swallowed up or dispersed the next. Nothing lasted, nothing remained constant.

      A Physicist may point to the universe and question how it could be so, from where the energy to move and mix came, how it could be so hot. Taking out a thermometer he might try to judge the temperature in a quantifiable way but, having no reference point against which to measure, he deftly changes his mind to ponder something else. He could go on to question the fabric. Such questions are dangerous, because they can drive one insane. They start off simply enough. They promise to yield graceful fruits, succinct nuggets of satisfying knowledge that allow for a peaceful night’s sleep.

      The reality of those questions is a lot more sinister. They burrow into the mind, drilling down through the cerebral cortex to implant themselves into the older, time weary matter, dropping their roots throughout and sucking upon the goodness within to feed themselves.

      And then they grow. They grow, pushing their tendrils of doubt and wonder up, up through the layers again, marking trails of wonder that heal into scars. The mind becomes a network of unanswered riddles, a roadmap of illogical twists and turns that warp curious thoughts that happen clumsily upon them. It is a dangerous mind that leaves them untended.

      The wounds from the infectious weed become too much to bear for a scientific mind. A rigid analysis is simply not enough to combat the inexhaustible paths that could be followed. Without a proper basis, it is all too abstracted. Without care, the Physicist metamorphoses into a Philosopher. He questions the nature of the existence, starting, naturally enough perhaps, from a human point of view.

      It was not a painful existence.

      It was not really an existence at all, for an existence would imply a measure of difference from the environment, something to discern a disparity. Perhaps some kind of form, something to point to so as to get a relative measure. There was no form, apart from the occasional inclusion of a foreign particle, or a bubble of turbulent gas, neither of which remained present long enough to present as something solid. The universe consisted of liquid and gas, fluids of matter, mixing and churning, mixing again, now coalescing, now separating.

      The Philosopher, watching on, questions whether or not there are abstractions in the world. Is there room for love in this universe? Is there room for intelligence? If the existence does not have any other discernible yardstick against which to measure tangible facets, such as temperature or time or motion, can it be implied that there is nothing for the intangible to be divined?

      And if this, he continues, if this is the case, then either those intangible properties do not exist at all, or they must exist outside of the constraints of the physical cosmos and, he may reason, since the former is false the latter must be true. For this existence, at least. And what of time?

      Time continued on. A millisecond? A century? Who could say? Since existence continued, it seemed only right that time should as well, considering how intertwined they appeared to be. The hardest part was discovering just how much time had elapsed. Not that it mattered. Since there was nothing but a claustrophobic sea of fluid bathed in a uniform light, the presence of time and its usual consequences meant little.

      And this was how it was forever and a day, until the world began to cool. The energy that had been floating so freely and uniformly began to disperse. The light shone less brightly, dimming more and more until it was hardly a reddish glow. To where did the energy go? And what of the light? And what will happen next? The Philosopher holds his head in agony as the weeds he left untended spring forth again. The Physicist intrepidly steps into the void, straightens his tie and adjusts his spectacles. The world is becoming more familiar, more tangible, and this presents fewer problems with which he cannot deal.

      As he watches he finds

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