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Six Sentence Sunday 1.27.2013

This excerpt comes from Fallout by Jon Kohl & Kimberly K. Comeau, scheduled for release from Books To Go Now:

There had been three simultaneous car bombs in Los Angeles two months ago and in Chicago, terrorists had barred all exit doors of a nightclub and exploded an incendiary grenade inside.

Before Harry could stop the image, he imagined a bright flash as tables splintered, acoustic tiles blew off, and hot shrapnel sliced through arms and legs. All that before anyone could scream. The thought choked him. He swallowed hard several times before putting the magazine back in the rack and straightening the copies behind it. Thank goodness for the safety of small towns.

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Harry Longmeadow flees Philadelphia to escape the big-city terrorism that took his brother’s life. The secret underground shelter he builds in rural north central Pennsylvania is designed to withstand any form of attack. But when an assault comes, the biggest threat isn’t nuclear fallout, but a female writer and homicide charges, for which he has no preplanned defenses.

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Six Sentence Sunday 1.20.2013

A new year, a new book. Fallout, a near-future science fiction romance co-written with Jon Kohl, is scheduled for release this week from Books To Go Now. In this scene, Harry's met the beautiful Lisa Bateman in a grocery store checkout line and they're getting acquainted during Lisa's lunch break, seated on a bench in front of the store.

She lifted her bottle and drank the seltzer almost to the bottom, then stirred the remaining beverage with the straw. Her shawl slipped down her forearm and Harry’s gaze caught on three bruises the size of fingers that encircled her wrist. He jerked his attention back to her face as she lowered the bottle to her lap. She half smiled. “So where do you work?”

“I work for a tax accounting firm in town, but I work from home. My schedule is pretty flexible.”

Fallout

by Jon Kohl and Kimberly K. Comeau

Harry Longmeadow flees Philadelphia to escape the big-city terrorism that took his brother’s life. The secret underground shelter he builds in rural north central Pennsylvania is designed to withstand any form of attack. But when an assault comes, the biggest threat isn’t nuclear fallout, but a female writer and homicide charges, for which he has no preplanned defenses.

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