Duke threw his head back and laughed even louder.
Roland didn’t look at Duke, but couldn’t resist a little smirk.
Coach was watching the feed from Roland’s vision and could see Duke’s blue metal in Roland’s peripheral view. There was a small band of light glowing around Duke’s forearm. “Roland, the race is about to start. Listen to me very carefully. Let Duke get ahead of you. He has armed an EMP blast, and you don’t want to be close to him when it goes off.”
Roland looked and saw the blue light on Duke’s forearm. “Will do.”
The announcer’s voice came over the loud speaker. “All Tech Games contestants please line up!” One thousand athletes stood on their numbered starting lines and looked ahead, hoping to be one of the lucky forty-eight that moved forward into the Tech Games. “Take your positions.” One thousand athletes crouched into their starting positions.
The sound of Roland’s own heartbeat was deafening in his ears. Adrenaline surged through his veins. As he crouched into his starting position, he could feel every muscle in his body was pulled tight, ready to spring into motion at the sound of the starter gun. Sweat ran down his back, arms and legs. It evaporated nearly instantly under the hot sun. The cooling from the evaporation gave Roland goosebumps. The hairs on his arms stood straight up, increasing his tactile feeling of even the slightest breath of wind.
“On your Mark!”
Roland could smell the dirt where his shoe had dug into the manicured turf to gain a better propulsion foothold.
“Get Set!”
He could hear the measured breathing of the other contestants. The Jamaican woman was breathing shorter and faster than him. Duke seemed to be almost continuously inhaling.
“Go!”
…Continue the Tech Games Race!
Find out what happens next:
Nano Contestant
Episode 2
Available August 2014!
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about the author:
Leif Sterling
Leif Sterling has always had a rich imagination and an eccentricity for all things technical. He read every door-stoppingly, thick computer manual that he could get his hands on from the time he was twelve on. Not surprisingly, college yielded bachelors and masters degrees in IT for him, which has come in handy when describing futuristic nano systems that haven’t been invented yet.
He enjoys using his powers for good, especially in the craft of storytelling - dreaming up the barely possible, and then placing the reader right in the middle of the action.
Writing is also a great reason to stay inside, in the AC, away from the hot Texas sun where he lives with his beautiful wife, two children and one feisty cat.
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