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About the Book:
The last of humanity
is trapped at the top of an isolated apartment tower with no memory of how they
got there or why. All travel beneath Floor 21 is forbidden, and nobody can ever
recall seeing the ground floor. Beneath Floor 21, a sickness known as the Creep
infests that halls of the Tower. A biological mass that grows stronger in
reaction to people’s fear and anger, the Creep prey’s on people by causing them
to hallucinate until they’re in a state of panicking, before finally growing
strong enough to lash out and consume them. Only a small team known as
Scavengers are allowed to go beneath Floor 21 to pillage the lower levels in
search of food and supplies.
Jackie is a
brilliant young girl that lives far above the infection and who rarely has to
worry about facing any harm. However, her intense curiosity drives her to
investigate the bottom floors and the Creep. To deal with her own anxiety and
insecurities, she documents her experiences on a personal recorder as she
explores the secrets of the Tower. During the course of her investigation,
Jackie will find herself at odds with Tower Authority, which safeguards what
remains of humanity, as she attempts to determine what created the Creep, how
humanity became trapped at the top of the Tower, and whether anyone knows if
escape is even possible.
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Book Excerpt
When you stop and
think about it, I mean, our lives don’t make sense. We couldn’t have always
lived up here, right? It gets me pretty antsy thinking about it because, I
mean, this is a tower, so we had to have come up the stairs at some point.
Didn’t we?
I don’t know, and
thinking about it gets me frustrated. When I’m in this kind of mood, I go to
the rooftop and look out. You can actually see other towers rising up in the
distance. Some aren’t even that far from ours. I stare at them, and I’m just
like . . . is anybody over there? Is anybody looking back
at me? Does anybody know or remember we’re trapped in this place?
Or are we all
that’s left?
After I’ve gotten
myself sufficiently depressed, I’ll stare over the edge of the roof, trying to
see how far below I can look. Thing is, it’s impossible to see much. This tower
just vanishes into the Darkness. Nobody, and I mean nobody, even knows why.
It’s just blackness down there.
Oh, about Floor
12. Yeah, that’s where the Creep really starts. The Creep? It’s
this . . . gunk. Super-disgusting stuff that you shouldn’t
touch because it makes you feel weird, and the lower down the Tower you go, the
more you see it. It starts to cover the walls, and it’s kinda gross. It’s
really slick, like saliva, and it looks all muscle-y. Almost alive. Good thing
you don’t have to worry about it when you’re higher than Floor 11. Still, I
wonder what it is. We all do. I know that when you touch it, you can start hallucinating.
I did once. Well, okay, I’m lying. I’ve touched it a few times when I’ve been
on the lower levels, which is why my parents made the rule that I couldn’t head
down there in the first place. I mean, I don’t pay attention to them, but I get
why they don’t want me going that far below into the Tower. The Creep makes you
see . . . things. Shadowy things. Sometimes they’re right
in front of you, but most of the time, they’re in the corner of your eye. They
say that by Floor 21, you don’t even have to touch the Creep to hallucinate,
which is a total trip. Must suck to live down there.
About the Author
Jason Luthor has
spent a long life writing for sports outlets, media companies and universities.
His earliest writing years came during his coverage of the San Antonio Spurs as
an affiliate with the Spurs Report and its media partner, WOAI Radio. He would
later enjoy a moderate relationship with Blizzard Entertainment, writing lore
and stories for potential use in future games. At the academic level he has
spent several years pursuing a PhD in American History at the University of Houston, with a special emphasis on Native American
history.
His inspirations include some of the obvious; The Lord of the Rings and Chronciles of Narnia are some of the most cited fantasy series in history. However, his favorite reads include the Earthsea Cycle, the Chronicles of Prydain, as well as science fiction hits such as Starship Troopers and Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?
His inspirations include some of the obvious; The Lord of the Rings and Chronciles of Narnia are some of the most cited fantasy series in history. However, his favorite reads include the Earthsea Cycle, the Chronicles of Prydain, as well as science fiction hits such as Starship Troopers and Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?
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