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    Forces
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    Forces

    By Michael D. Britton

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    Your computer starts working fine again as soon as you call IT for help...Coincidence? Murphy's Law? Destiny? Deja vu? What are these strange forces that weave their way throughout our lives? Dr. Mark Walters believes he has the key — and his world is turned upside-down when those forces begin to take over his life. After reading FORCES, you'll never look at every day occurrences the same way again... [NOTE: THIS IS A NOVELLA LENGTH WORK OF FICTION]

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntelligent Life Books
    Release dateMay 24, 2011
    ISBN9781458111647
    Forces
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    Michael D. Britton

    Michael D. Britton has been writing professionally for 25 years, including heading up marketing departments, working in huge private corporations, writing for government entities, supporting non-profit healthcare systems, sprinting with tiny tech start-ups, freelancing, and a producing TV news broadcasts in the 90s. His short fiction has received ten honorable mentions in the Writers of the Future contest, among other recognition; and his novels have advanced through multiple rounds of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in various years. His list of indie-published fiction titles exceeds 65 and keeps increasing. Learn more at www.michaeldbritton.com.

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      Forces - Michael D. Britton

      Forces

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      Michael D. Britton

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      Although it only felt like it all happened in slow motion, the television cameras that captured it ensured that the world would see it all in slow motion again and again and again.

      Dr. Mark Walters could barely believe he was doing this – so the fact that network cameras were immortalizing his act would make sure he never forgot this crazy day was real.

      As the stunned crowd looked on, Walters leapt onto the stage, squirmed past the security guards, and dove, fully outstretched toward his target. James Wells’ eyes seemed to pop out of his head when he saw the shaggy-haired scientist flying toward him.

      Despite his powerful physique, Wells was unprepared for the assault and unable to move in time to avoid Walters’ tackle. Walters brought the blindsided Wells tumbling to the floor, jabbed the huge syringe into Wells’ muscled thigh, and forcefully injected the serum. Security instantly pulled Walters away amid the screams of the crowd, but it was too late – the deed was done.

      Walters was hauled away in a blur of jostling and angry noises. It really was a blur – he’d lost his glasses when he’d brought Wells down. But it didn’t matter. He’d done what he had to do, and everything else would work itself out. Isn’t that what P.J. would say?

      As he sat alone in a cold cell, hanging his aching head between his knees, he wondered where P.J. and all his friends were now. Would they just leave him here to rot, giving Irene one last laugh? He ran his hand through his messy black hair and pulled his fingers across the stubble on his cheeks, finishing the gesture at his rugged chin.

      How had he allowed himself to get into this predicament, anyway? He thought back to how it had started, just one week ago . . .

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      Walters stood in his laboratory, hunched over a spectroradiograph, analyzing his latest set of data. His lab was really just the nine hundred square foot basement of his home, since it was difficult to get funding for his work. He was lucky to have the equipment he had, and the opportunity to work full time on his ongoing project. Some smart investments a few years back had ensured he’d be able to follow his passion without having to worry about putting food on the table.

      Not that he’d been eating very well lately. The ebb and flow of his research was reaching one of those crescendos where he felt like he was on the verge of a breakthrough, and

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