Triggering an explosion, seventeen-year-old Angeline Castillo bites it, escaping the ÆRA research facility and its horrors... temporarily. Hours later, she awakens - terrified and alone back in the lab, only to discover cybernetic implants replace half her skull, reversing the damage that'd killed her. Upgraded, she finds enhanced living to be a blessed curse. Cuz while technopathic abilities are cool, a disembodied voice in your head that's reading your thoughts, seeing through your eyes, and speaking in your dead brother's voice? Not so cool.
Still... the voice's got a name Archie, and he claims to have access to the entire facility, so they form a pact. She'll fight her way to him if he'll help her survive. But Archie and Angeline have secrets of their own: secrets that could endanger their friendship, his existence, and her very identity. And the closer they get, the more inseparable they become.
Posted weekly, Terminal Fuse is a young adult, sci-fi horror by Josiah Gray. Cover art is also by Josiah Gray, with images licensed from mazegenerator.net or used with permission by NASA and Pexels (via Pixabay).
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Three years.
It had been three years since he'd been taken, experimented on, had his DNA altered and became a freak of nature. He knew because he'd managed to peek at the computer when they dragged him into that dreaded room; the one they used to prod, poke and inject him with god-knows-what. He was considered their only success - meaning their illegal tests hadn't killed him or rendered him paralysed, or worse; brain dead.
He was subject 254. And he was the only survivor.
At least until she - subject 391 - moved into the cell next door.
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18th June 2018 - Rank 1 #sciencefiction
17th May 2019 - Rank 4 #romance
22nd Feb 2019 - Rank 1 #superpowers
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