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    Of Sudden Origin Part 1: The Exodus Is Over
    Of Sudden Origin Part 1: The Exodus Is Over
    Of Sudden Origin Part 1: The Exodus Is Over
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    Of Sudden Origin Part 1: The Exodus Is Over

    By C. Chase Harwood

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    “Tremendously Different Apocalyptic Epic”
    “I have never read a zombie book quite like this one.”
    “Oh my god! This was one of the scariest zombie books I have ever read.”
    (The first book in the Of Sudden Origin universe.)
    Perhaps once in an epoch, events force evolution to take a giant leap and a life form arises that is aberrant to that from which it sprang. This process is known to science as Of Sudden Origin.
    Call them zombies if you must; America, is at the mercy of a ruthless infection that devolves the intellect into that of a simian fiend. Horrible, yes, merciless, yes, blood thirsty, unquestionably - but it is the offspring of the infected who will change the world: The children of the Fiends are a mutant mind controlling abomination, and there is no defense against them.
    Jon Washington is one misstep from being torn apart, eaten alive or becoming a psychotic killer. Broken down in a New Hampshire forest with millions of psychopathic Americans marching on his heals, he meets Nikki Rosen, a disgraced Marine. Together they will cross a crucible of challenges that has outwitted and killed the most resilient among us. In an effort to solve what is being called The Cain’s pandemic, a Hot Zone Team of CDC scientists backed by Special Forces will go to Florida. Along the way they will stare into the the very face of evil. Happenstance combines these disparate groups into an explosive conclusion. Will any survive?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. Chase Harwood
    Release dateAug 14, 2015
    ISBN9781310043963
    Of Sudden Origin Part 1: The Exodus Is Over
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    C. Chase Harwood

    C. Chase Harwood made a career in Hollywood, decorating sets for film and television before turning his passion for story telling into clicks on a keyboard. While scaling the walls of the screenwriting world, he chose to experiment with prose and found a fondness for Scifi-action-adventure. Within that framework he gets to explore the countless ways that humans interact while under duress. "Life is all the more lived when the consequences are high. When told as a tale it can be quite a page turner," says Harwood. He lives in Los Angeles with his costume designer wife and young boy girl twins. The following are some other storytellers with whom the author finds a kindred spirit: HUGH HOWIE, STEPHEN KING, SCOTT SIGLER, DJ MOLLES, RHIANNON FRATER, SEAN PLATT, JUSTIN CRONIN, JAMES S.A. COREY, PETER CLINES, SUZANNE COLLINS, ERNEST CLINE, MAX BROOKS, VERONICA ROTH, LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD, ORSON SCOTT CARD "Pretty big shoes...”

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      Of Sudden Origin Part 1 - C. Chase Harwood

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      OF SUDDEN ORIGIN - PART 1 THE EXODUS IS OVER

      Copyright © 2014 Christopher Harwood / Fate & Fortune Press

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      All rights reserved. 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 prior permission of the author.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’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Children Of Fiends - Book 2 of The Of Sudden Origin Saga

      The Ouroboros

      PREFACE

      Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors

      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

      In 1999 professor of anthropology Jeffery A Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh postulated a solution to the so-called Missing Link. He proposed, that given the poor fossil record for evolutionary graduation, that there were no missing links. He then offered an alternative to the accepted Darwinian model: Rather than life evolving through a slow adaptation to ever changing environmental factors, he suggested that evolution was actually a history of rapid genesis and extinction, with long periods of stasis in between. Schwartz used a growing body of molecular scientific evidence to show that evolution is not a progression of perceptible mutations within species, but rather a series of sudden origins, where new species burst forth upon the scene.

      In 2010 Chris Venditti and Andrew Meade at the University of Reading in the UK and Mark Pagel at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, followed up on Schwartz’s work, among others, with a paper published in Nature.  They concluded that the Darwinian theory of natural selection (whereby, over eons, transformations occur due to subtle changes in environment) made up for only 8% of evolutionary change. While studying rates of speciation in 101 groups of plants, animals, and fungi, they used four different evolutionary models to see which model best fit evolutionary history. They concluded that 78% of evolutionary family trees came into existence via singular, rare events, such as dramatic climate change, heaving mountains, shifting lands and disease - to name just a few.

      In 2004 engineers and scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan successfully forced an evolutionary leap: In a process likened to natural selection, they made random alterations in the DNA of E Coli bacterium and then observed the bacterium come up with an entirely new way to make disulfide bonds – the stiffening struts that help give proteins their shape. A critical structural component of healthy proteins, disulfides keep molecules from forming into the broken building blocks of disease, such as Alzheimer’s, cystic fibrosis and mad cow. These researchers offered a new alternative to the control of disease – bioengineered evolution.

      Creationists have latched on to some of the above, to support their own theory - that an intelligent being, an omniscient engineer, controls all of this – completely new creatures simply don’t spring forth from the ether; a greater hand is involved. Scientists would of course disagree; pointing out that these new manifestations are but the final result of an immeasurable buildup of genetic mutations – mutations, that when given the right environment, the right set of circumstances, will spring forth as new species.

      PART ONE

      The Exodus is Over

      CHAPTER ONE

      GROWING THINGS

      Like most prey animals, the white-tailed deer exits the womb and in moments, struggles to stand. To survive in a world where it is a delicacy on the large predator’s list, it must be able to run almost as soon as it hits the ground. In a dense forest in Northern New England, a very odd looking infant who was already on the edge of intellectualizing this, watched with glee as its mother butchered a fawn. In its own way, this baby was a creature born to survive the moment it entered the world. Within the labyrinth of connections in its fast growing brain, there was a new sense, a new skill if you will, that neither dear Mother Earth, nor God if you prefer, had ever experimented with. While its mother, and a few others around her, gorged themselves on the flesh of the still twitching animal, the infant directed Mom to concentrate on the choicest parts. Though its own sharp teeth were just breaking through its gums, and it still preferred her warm milk rather than blood marrow and muscle, it could nevertheless taste, smell and feel what its mother was eating. Everything that its mother sensed, the baby sensed as well. Its mind was connected through the ether to the others. As such, it directed its mother to eat only the choicest parts. As she gorged herself, it could feel and sense the mild frustration of the other’s around it, and it gleefully directed them to chew on the lesser bits.

      As it sat on the forest floor, crushing leaves between its tiny fists, the infant got an idea: a part of it already understood humor, and it directed one skinny male to gnaw on a hoof. The child could sense the male’s irritation, and its sharp pointy ears folded back with amusement while a large smile spread across its healthy pudgy face. It watched its legs kicking with pleasure and it couldn't help but notice how different its legs were from the others around it. This thought, like all its thoughts, immediately transferred to the mother. What was left of its mother's mind thought, Fucking odd shape. Like the thing I'm gorging on. The child's legs were hinged like the rear hocks of any fourlegged animal, only with elongated human feet; like a cat's hindquarters; built for speed.

      Driving through ancient New England farmland, Jon Washington listened to the engine of his

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