Why Me?

Explorer Julia Wallace gets much more than she bargained for when she accepts an assignment to investigate the source of a distress signal in Russia. What she finds is a phenomenon she could not possibly have expected, and the ultimate adventure.

This story has its roots in the English paper for the final exams of a particular school year. I didn't have time to finish the composition at the end, so I wrote "to be continued", with every intention of finishing it later, in my own time. I did just that, but I certainly didn't expect the story to turn out as long as it did! At almost 15,000 words, it's definitely one of the longest works of fiction I've written to date! So I've had to divide it into three more manageable portions for publication on this site.

The hardest part, I should mention, was the title. I originally called it "Julia's Japes" or something that, while I liked the alliteration, sounded really stupid.