SYMPHONI
*BY*
T.M. SCOTT
BLURB
Life
hasn’t been too easy for Greg Daniels lately. But when he arrives at school on
the first day back from summer vacation, he finds that things are much worse
than he could have ever imagined.
Stuck in the middle of an ancient feud between the Olympians and the Titans, Greg discovers that the line between good and evil isn't always clear and his allies might be more dangerous than the enemy.
Stuck in the middle of an ancient feud between the Olympians and the Titans, Greg discovers that the line between good and evil isn't always clear and his allies might be more dangerous than the enemy.
We stood in silence at the edge of Olympian Lake just
looking at each other. We were about fifteen feet apart, her expression calm
and relaxed but my heart pounded hard in my chest as if my body somehow knew
what was about to happen. The sun had already set leaving the cloudless
California sky an endless sea of blue. Her long black hair fluttered around her
as a cold breeze blew between us, causing the hair on my arms to stand on end.
I blinked and suddenly there she was, not four inches from my face. I didn’t
flinch. I’d witnessed her abilities before and her ability to transport was
probably the least shocking. Her cool breath brushed lightly across my face and
I felt the air pick up around us, swirling cold as if we were in our own little
tornado.
The quiet anticipation of what we both knew
was about to happen had started to make me edgy but before I could comment, she
wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me. Her lips were soft and urgent,
her tongue hungry as she searched my mouth as if we didn’t have enough time.
She tasted good like cool spring water and cold mountain air as her breath
filled my body, sending hard electricity down my spine. My knees began to shake
and she clamped her arms tightly around my neck as her breath became scorching
hot in my mouth. My eyes sprang open and I struggled against her iron hold. She
didn’t budge and I felt a thick, excruciatingly hot substance began flowing
into my body.
“Well,” I thought, amazingly calm
considering my impending doom. “I knew she would kill me one day.” My lungs
started straining for air and my body seized as the magma (at least that’s what
it felt like) reached my chest but she never let go. Instead, she tightened her
grip around me and guided me smoothly to the ground. I decided to stop
struggling, accepting my fate, and looked around. My heart beat finally started
to slow, bringing with it a host of memories that flashed rapidly through my
mind.
Symphoni. My Symphoni. When she walked into
the room, my heart beat slowed just as it was now only this time it meant I was
dieing. I looked up at the sky now twinkling brightly with hundreds of stars
and smiled to myself as I tried to remember all the times she and I sat in this
very spot. I remembered the times I ran my fingers through her thick black
hair, the times I gazed deep into her eyes, and thought about how I would miss
her even after my untimely (and frankly completely unnecessary) death. I closed
my eyes just as my heart finally stopped and the silence of the world was
deafening. No birds, cars, no sounds of breathing or movements to keep me
company in these last seconds of life. Just silence. I felt myself leaving the
earth, floating away to find my small place in the divine (as grandma used to
say) when suddenly I heard her voice.
“GREG!!!!!” her scream filled the
air with her mournful cry as it rang through the night sky, shattering the
silence with her pain and terror. Then, before another word or breath could
escape her body, before I could see her beautiful eyes glistening with tears
and tell her that everything would be ok… Darkness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
T.M
Scott loves writing. With passion, drive and a taste for the unusual, she
enjoys reading and writing new and different things. Doing her best to always
think out of the box, her writing usually starts off as an insane scheme of
some sort before she works out the finer aspects and turns it into something
great! Her heroines and heroes are never the typical 'beautiful' people,
meaning they all have some sort of quirk or oddity about them that makes them
unique and refreshing characters everyone can relate to.
Her first novel, Symphoni was published in March 2013 and her work has been featured in the horror anthology, The Withering Darkness. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her daughter Ariyanna.
CONTACT T.M. SCOTT
@tiannna_MHAFH
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