[Excerpt] Swift by Heather London
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
As part of the Swift Tour I am giving you an excerpt of the book!
Here is the excerpt for Swift!
Excerpt 1:
After a
few seconds, I looked right and left and saw the street was deserted. Just as I
was about to step off the curb, something caught my eye. Or should I say,
someone. There on the opposite corner a guy was standing facing me. It was
weird, because I could feel the stare that he held on me. My eyes drifted
toward him, and when our eyes met, his stare did not waver in the least. A
shiver ran down my spine when I realized that I did not recognize him either.
He was tall, maybe six feet or so and had blonde hair. His athletic build
reminded me of most of our football players at school. I couldn’t make out much
more detail because of the distance separating us. Our eyes were locked
together for a few seconds, only interrupted by the beeping of the crosswalk,
letting me know it was my turn to cross. I shook my head as if to wake myself
up from a dream, and without thinking twice about it, I stepped off the curb
and into the street. And that’s when I heard it—the horrible sound of tires
screeching, trying their hardest to stop. But by the time I looked to my right,
it was too late. I couldn’t have moved out of the path of the car even if my
frozen legs could’ve moved—there was just no time. The only thing I could do
was shut my eyes tight, hope it would be quick, and pray the pain would be
slight. Then everything went totally silent, so silent that I could hear my
ears ringing and my heart pounding loud against my chest.
About a
second later, a second past when I thought I would be road kill, I slightly
opened my right eye and gasped at what I saw. The car was still in front of me,
but it was moving in very slow motion. I mean, like molasses coming out of a
bottle slow. Everything around me felt weird, different. I looked around,
wondering if maybe the car had already hit me and this was just a cruel part of
the afterlife or something, making me watch in slow motion how I died.
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