surface. The helicopter disappeared below, leaving only churning brown waves pierced by the cable.
Here it comes . That's what I thought. And then I thought of something else.
For the first time in years, I thought of my turning point, the night when I really started my climb to the top. The night when I left A.E. for dead.
"Remember," said D.X. "Go toward the light!"
And then the river parted around me, bitterly cold. And I plunged into darkness and silence.
And the breath I'd meant to hold for as long as I could rushed right out of me, and I was gone.
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About the Author
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Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist , won the Forward National Literature Award and was named one of Booklist âs Top Ten First Novels for Youth. Simon & Schuster, DAW/Penguin Books, and DC Comics have published his work. He won the grand prize in Pocket Books' nationwide Strange New Worlds contest and was nominated for the British Fantasy Award. Visit him online at www.thefictioneer.com. You can also find him on Facebook and follow him as @TheFictioneer on Twitter.
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E-books by Robert T. Jeschonek
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Fantasy
6 Fantasy Stories
6 More Fantasy Stories
Blazing Bodices
Earthshaker , A N ovel (Urban Fantasy)
Girl Meets Mind Reader
Groupie Everlasting
Heaven Bent â a novel
Rose Head
Snowman's Chance in Hell
The Bear in the Cable-Knit Sweater
The Genie's Secret
The Return of Alice
The Sword That Spoke
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Erotica
Kiss of the Acolyte
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Horror
Bloodliner , A N ovel
Diary of a Maggot
Dionysus Dying
Fear of Rain
Road Rage
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Humor (Adults Only)
Dick by Law, A N ovel
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Literary
6 Short Stories
Getting Higher â a novel
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Mystery and Crime
6 Crime Stories
Crimes in the Key of Murder
Death by Polka, A Novel
The First Detect-Eve
The Foolproof Cure for Cancer
The Other Waiter
Who Unkilled Johnny Murder?
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Poetry
Flight of Ideas
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Science Fiction
6 Scifi Stories
6 More Scifi Stories
6 Scifi Stories Book 3
Battlenaut Crucible, A Novel
Beware the Black Battlenaut
Day 9, A Novel
Give The Hippo What He Wants
Lenin of the Stars
Messiah 2.0
My Cannibal Lover
Off The Face Of The Earth
One Awake In All The World
Playing Doctor
Scifi Motherlode
Serial Killer vs. E-Merica
Something Borrowed, Something Doomed
Star Sex
Teacher of the Century
The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe
The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake
The Shrooms of Benares
Universal Language , A Novella
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Superheroes
6 Superhero Stories
7 Comic Book Scripts
7 More Comic Book Scripts
4 More Comic Book Scripts
A Matter of Size
Forced Retirement (Forced Heroics Book 1)
Forced Betrayal (Forced Heroics Book 2)
Forced Partnership (Forced Heroics Book 3)
Heroes of Global Warming
The Masked Family, A Novel
The Wife Who Never Was
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Thrillers
Backtracker, A Novel
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The Trek It! Series
Trek This!
Trek Off!
Trek Fail!
Trek Script!
Trek Script 2
Trek Novel!
Trek You!
Trek It!
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Young Readers
Dolphin Knight , A Novel
Lump
Tommy Puke and the Boy with the Golden Barf
Tommy Puke and the World's Grossest Grown-Up
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A Young Adult Fantasy Novel That Really Rocks!
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Being trapped in a book can be a nightmareâjust ask Idea Deity. Heâs convinced that he exists only in the pages of a novel written by a malevolent author...and that he will die in Chapter 64. Meanwhile, Reacher Mirage, lead singer of the secret rock band Youforia, canât figure out whoâs posting information about him and his band online that only he