Lily Marin - three short steampunk stories by Paul Kater Read Free Book Online Page B

clock somewhere.
    "Hello," she tried again. It was hardly
surprising there was no reaction. "Think, Lily," she told herself.
"You have to get away from here, and nobody is going to help you."
After a while in which she tried to decide what to do, she told
herself: "You will have to break the chain."
    It sounded so stupid and impossible that she
almost had to laugh at herself, were it not that she had broken
chains before. Even when these were thinner than the massive one
that lay over her chest and stomach now.
    She had, Lily understood, no other choice
than to try it. She took a deep breath, tensed her arms and started
pushing against the chain. To her surprise there was some movement.
She pushed harder. A cracking sound told her that parts of the
table she was on were about to give up their support.
    Lily yanked one more time. Something gave way
and she tumbled down -
    Lily found herself on the floor of her
bedroom, her blanket and pillow on top of her, the sheets of her
bedlinen wrapped tightly around her.
    She'd had the dream again.
    Slowly she curled up, pulling the blanket
over her head. Underneath that she was alone, with her tears.

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    About the author:
    I am an IT consultant who loves reading and
writing.
    I've been an amateur-author since years,
writing SciFi, Fantasy and lately also Steampunk. My home is in the
Netherlands.
    I hope you liked "Lily Marin - three short
steampunk stories".
    All books I published so far:

    Hilda the wicked Witch series:
    Hilda the wicked
witch (Smashwords, July 2010)
    Hilda - Snow White
Revisited (Smashwords, September 2010)
    Hilda - The
Challenge (Smashwords, December 2010)

    Steampunk:
    Aeroparts
Factory (Smashwords, December 2010)

    If you want to connect with me online:
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/pagan_paul
    Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/paulkater
    My website: http://www.nlpagan.net