It's Saturday, and you know what that means! More bite-sized excerpts from Heroic Lies!
1.
The voice was patient, coaxing him back to reality, steadily pushing him toward a decision.
A choice he had no clue how to make as the fire where his home used to be made its silent announcement:
Everyone was dead.
2.
“I don’t know.” His voice continued to waver, his shattered emotions dragging it unwillingly to the edge of breaking. “I just... we have to…”
It broke.
“I don’t know.”
3.
I can’t believe I’m doing this.
...Of course, my other option is to lie here until the building collapses on my head, but...
I can’t believe I’m doing this.
4.
I really hope this incident doesn’t make it onto my headstone.
Here lies Alexandra, crushed her own brain one day,
But no loss; she wasn’t using it anyway.
If these excerpts got you curious, you can read a longer excerpt and get a copy of the book here.
1.
The voice was patient, coaxing him back to reality, steadily pushing him toward a decision.
A choice he had no clue how to make as the fire where his home used to be made its silent announcement:
Everyone was dead.
2.
“I don’t know.” His voice continued to waver, his shattered emotions dragging it unwillingly to the edge of breaking. “I just... we have to…”
It broke.
“I don’t know.”
3.
I can’t believe I’m doing this.
...Of course, my other option is to lie here until the building collapses on my head, but...
I can’t believe I’m doing this.
4.
I really hope this incident doesn’t make it onto my headstone.
Here lies Alexandra, crushed her own brain one day,
But no loss; she wasn’t using it anyway.
If these excerpts got you curious, you can read a longer excerpt and get a copy of the book here.
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