"What about you, Matt?"
"I've never been in love, Vic."
Well, I was in love now, and the pain was killing me.
"Hello, Matt. Are you all right?"
I sat up and looked at the bed before I realized it was Susan's voice. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine. I've missed you," I said, looking up into the smoke detector.
"No more than I've missed you. And I've not been in stasis all these months. I have felt the passage of every minute."
"I'm sorry, honey—"
"Oh, Matt, I know you've had no control over the situation; neither have I."
"I understand you have been very busy up here," I said.
"Yes, Matt. When Doc returned with all those spare parts, his work really began in earnest. Some of us only needed minor work, requiring few parts. Others required an almost total chassis replacement. But the new chassis are quite nice and look as we remember them."
"Yeah. Sanyo looks like he just came off the showroom floor." Just then, I heard my door unlock, open, close, then lock again. I sprang up.
"It's okay, Matt. That was me."
"You can manipulate my doors?"
"I can. Very little is beyond my control, watch this." A lamp came on in my living room and the light shone through my bedroom door.
"Impressive. Can you cook, too?" I sat back down.
"No, but I'll bet I could beat you in a run from here to the Crater House."
"Run? Sure, but I think Walker will give me a better race," I said.
A shadow appeared on the wall in the hallway that connected my bedroom to the living room. I sat, watching it and could see it was moving toward the bedroom. My body and mind switched to combat mode. A silhouette appeared in the door frame. It was the obvious form of a woman, a woman with bobbed hair and dressed in a flight suit. In that low voice of hers, Susan said, "Why don't you run with me instead?"
I slowly got to my feet, my incredulous eyes drinking in the figure before me. I tried to speak, but my voice cracked. "You're...you're not dressed for a run," I said slowly.
Susan unzipped her flight suit and stepped out of it. "I am now."
About the Author
Mike Gonzales was born in Long Beach California back in the 20th Century.
He spent twenty years’ service in the army and over twenty as a museum curator. Now he has embarked on yet a third profession—that of fictionist.
Mike’s mind has always been a fertile place where at the sight of an oddly shaped cloud, or some other anomaly, he would ask himself, what if?
At last he has exhumed his imagination from the mental sarcophagus in which it had been so long entombed, and set it free. It now roams through caverns in the Moon, the blue forests of other worlds, and the WWII battlefields of North Africa, only to arrive on the Isle of Apples at the foot of Arthur’s tomb.
If you have no fear of murderers, aliens, wyverns, and phantoms—if the embrace of a lover's arms is your desire—if solving a mystery is to your liking—If you see tear drops on the page as a mark of the depth of your empathy…then come along on the many adventures this vibrant new author has given rise to.
The Unborn Galaxy: Book One
Dark Moon Rising
When a quake cracks the Moon apart and swallows a habitat with eight people inside, their survival is in question. Sergeant Hugh Pacherd takes command of the group, his primary goal to protect the woman he loves. Hugh discovers he’s on shaky footing, battling not only the elements, but the many powerful emotions at play within the band of survivors—envy, hatred, insanity, and the love between himself and Dr. Mary Eddington.
Inside the Earth’s satellite, they discover an alien base and a moldering spacecraft. Awakening the still-conscious but disembodied minds of ancient visitors could be their salvation—or the death of planet Earth.
An alliance is formed that both groups may return home. But there is a murderer loose—one of the humans—and Hugh believes the aliens can’t be trusted, either.
Deadly secrets threaten to destroy all life on Earth. Hugh Pacherd is the only man who might stop humanity’s destruction—but will he have to give up Mary to do it?
Nothing is as it seems—not even the valiant soldier, determined to save the woman he loves and the band of humans from a DARK MOON RISING… AMAZON LINK
COMING SOON
The Unborn Galaxy: Book Three
Across A Sea Of Stars by Michael E. Gonzales
Astronaut Chris Salazar is assigned to the Moon colony, JILL, for a study of enigmatic singularity. During an experiment within the crater Hohmann, Chris is captured in a peculiar gravitational field and is transported halfway across the universe.
He lands in a strange world, and learns that, in landing, he has accidently killed the son of the tyrannical ruler—and now, he must pay…or escape. The inhabitants of this strange place help Chris, and a wizard sets him on a path he never could have imagined. On his travels through the alien world, he is warned of danger by a mystical huntress.
What began as an escape becomes a struggle for billions of lives, and for Chris, a destiny he could not have anticipated ACROSS A SEA OF STARS...
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