Silence, nothing by endless deafening silence. As well, darkness. Darkness that stretched for miles upon miles, nothing the human eye could see. Nothing to latch onto and feed the hunger that drives humans forward. Then, there was Needledrop. Small to begin with and created for balance of the universe, multiverse. But something changed as the universe expanded and expanded, change upon change coming and going. The rise and fall of many empires. Needledrop decided they wanted a turn, a turn to rise and succeed where the others failed. Succeed they did.
Wynnona Allen is the most irritating woman you could find in the entirety of the universe in 2519. Gladiator for money, living in the slums, surviving off her own stubbornness, no one would think to imagine the raw power trapped in her. We could not have imagined our child would chose her to lead the resistance efforts against Needledrop. We were right about her in every sense of the word. We will not tell you why, we shall let you see for yourself...
This book is complete and the first book of the Rules series. Tune into the next one, A sandy slope to walk, for more in this adventure. Thank you so much for reading! I'm currently working on editing this book.
Book one of the Rules series.
Started: April 21, 2019, 3:48pm
Ended: February 15, 2020, 11:27am
Started Editing: April 3, 2020, 4:46pm
Editing Ended: November 25, 2020, 7:20pm
[Complete. Wattys 2023 Winner] The Redding takes you if it knows your name. That's the rule that's kept Meg alive --- or awake, rather --- since the night the world went to hell. Nobody knows where the red stuff came from, but it acts like water, it's in the water, and it falls as rain every night. The people it captures drop like puppets with their strings cut. They're asleep, not dead, and you can wake them if you say their name again. But then they just try to kill you.
Meg and the other survivors she's befriended think they've found a stable equilibrium, six weeks after the catastrophe began. Nicknames become real names, and Meg knows she's getting better at identifying safe houses. Her crush discovers that Morse code, like writing, is a safe way to say a Sleeper's name. It's the night after learning it that Meg wakes up just as the nightly rain is starting.
Raindrops, as it turns out, can make dots and dashes, too. The Redding can talk.
And it's telling her to run.
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Complete. Wattys 2023 Winner.
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