Sector Zero: A Rift in Time -teaser-

James Alec, a writer from the present day; finds himself transported into what appears to be his own unfinished novel, in which the year is 3079 where humans are extinct.

Chapter 1

“Unrecognizable sounds, I've never heard before. Weird humming, could that be a car of some sort? A lot of banging; the people sound aggressive, I don't recognize the language. Where am I?” Slowly I open my eyes, my head's throbbing. As I finally came to, panic floods my mind. When I woke, I found myself in an alley, in what appears to be a city on a foreign world. As I look around, the buildings, the streets; all had a cyber post-apocalyptic feels to it. Everything seems so hi-tech, even for my taste, but yet everything seem so rundown. Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore and this sure as hell ain't Oz. Where exactly am I? Swiftly I ran and I ran with great haste. Out of the alley, I ran for help. I ran to a woman standing next to a kiosk, she had dark red skin and solid yellow eyes, but her words were jumbled to me. I even tried talking to a hog looking man,

“Where am I?” I asked him. His response I could not make out. Just like that woman, his words were jumbled as well. I don't understand a word they're saying and who knows if they even understand mine. Frantically, I went running down the streets in hopes of finding a savior. The streets are crowded yet still I ran, bumping into people along the way. In my mind I'm thinking, “There has got to be another human around. There just gotta be!”

Exhausted, I found myself still alone in an old deserted rundown alley, tired and hungry and still no savior. It's late at night and finally I passed out. I don't know if it was do to exhaustion or hunger, perhaps both. Halfway through the night, a drifter startled me away by gently kicking my legs. As I came to and my eyes adjusted, the drifter standing before me appears to have the body of a female, yet cloaked with a hood and a mask. I can even see peaking through the back of her cloak, a reptilian tail.

“Who is this drifter to wake me in the mid of night?” I thought to myself.

Author's Note

James Alec, a writer from the present day; an author of a best selling novel, finds himself transported into what appears to be his own unfinished novel, in which the year is 3079 where humans are extinct and a new race has declared Earth as their own. Join James as he is joined with Kireina, a Kworian woman as they work together to try and save the universe from an unseen force, while running for their lives from the Guntar, a ruthless gang of thugs who is hellbent on capturing James for the price tag on his head. There is still a question left unanswered going through James head in the midst of all this chaos, did he really get transported into his own novel, or did he in fact traveled into the future. Find out in, “Sector Zero: A Rift in Time.”

Reviews

[Scott]

First off, great idea. There are a lot of ways you can go with this. I feel his confusion as the story starts. He is maybe a little calmer than I would expect so I assume he will be a strong character going forward. One ask would be more detail around what he sees, smells, and hears. I want to draw a more complete picture in my head of what this world looks like.

I am looking forward to more.

[wordman]

great idea,he starts living his own novel,