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    Fear
    Fear
    Fear
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    Fear

    By Daniel Devine

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    When Nikal saves a small, starving girl he finds outside after curfew, he inadvertently dooms his own brother who is blamed for his actions.

    Racked with guilt, he knows that he must make amends, but no one in his family agrees. Only Mirka, the child he saved.

    How can two children hope to stop their oppressors?

    Perhaps the two children are not as alone as they think.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel Devine
    Release dateMar 23, 2016
    ISBN9781311517111
    Fear
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    Daniel Devine

    Dan Devine is the speculative fiction author of the Cull Chronicles and other stories. A graduate of Cornell University, he holds degrees in Chemistry and History and he generally makes his living trying to pretend he knows something about science.

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      Fear - Daniel Devine

      Fear

      By Daniel Devine

      Copyright 2016 Daniel Devine

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      It was cold in the dark. The wall at my back pressed against my thin shirt like solid ice, but I dared not move away.

      A torch shone from the mouth of the alley. I squeezed my eyes shut so that their whites would not catch the light.

      Heavy footsteps shuffled forward. The beam reached me, made my closed eyelids shine pink. I remained still. It slid by slowly then jerked back towards me with a sudden, violent motion.

      More footsteps, the last terminating in a wet splat and some guttural cursing. The wind rose, rustling trash. I fought the urge to shiver.

      The beam from the torch lowered, perhaps to examine my pursuer’s feet. I opened my eyes and sought the hole in the fence to my left. I thought I could see it, a deeper yawning black against an uncertain gray.

      I dove just as the light flicked back my way.

      My aim was off and frayed chain-link scoured my back. Its rattle was loud against the night’s silence, but I came up on my feet running.

      There was a narrow void here, where the crumbling concrete of adjoining tenements came close but did not abut. Nothing but dirt and scrub grass; completely devoid of

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