Hollowgirl (2015)
“Are you sure it’s working?”
The voice was faint, as though rising up a very deep well, and it seemed to be her own. Or perhaps Clair One’s. Before she could pursue that mystery, the dream within a dream slipped out of her grasp and her eyelids flickered open. What had happened?
She saw only darkness. She smelled gunfire and blood. People were crying and moaning all around her. The floor was hard against her back. Something blazed bright and terrible in her shoulder and chest when she tried and ...failed to sit up. Her hands were empty. She had dropped the gun.
“Clair?” Jesse was calling her. “Clair, where are you?”
“Over here,” she gasped, distantly understanding that she had been shot, perhaps more than once. She must have blacked out for a moment. Not for long, though, because the lights were still out. The only thing that had changed was that the firing she could still hear was coming from far away, not right next to her.
Her voice was weak. She could hardly breathe. There was no fear yet, just a terrible irritation that she couldn’t do anything.MoreLess
The voice was faint, as though rising up a very deep well, and it seemed to be her own. Or perhaps Clair One’s. Before she could pursue that mystery, the dream within a dream slipped out of her grasp and her eyelids flickered open. What had happened?
She saw only darkness. She smelled gunfire and blood. People were crying and moaning all around her. The floor was hard against her back. Something blazed bright and terrible in her shoulder and chest when she tried and ...failed to sit up. Her hands were empty. She had dropped the gun.
“Clair?” Jesse was calling her. “Clair, where are you?”
“Over here,” she gasped, distantly understanding that she had been shot, perhaps more than once. She must have blacked out for a moment. Not for long, though, because the lights were still out. The only thing that had changed was that the firing she could still hear was coming from far away, not right next to her.
Her voice was weak. She could hardly breathe. There was no fear yet, just a terrible irritation that she couldn’t do anything.MoreLess
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