“Yes, Your Holiness,” replied an eager young
man in far more splendid robes.
“Failure is not an option.”
“We will not fail. We have planned for every circumstance.
Project Einstein will not succeed.”
“But it will not come back to us?”
“No, Your Eminence. No one will blame us for
their demise.”
“How many back-up plans?”
“Seven.”
“Not enough.” His ancient hand quivered as it
rested upon the metalwork. “Fifteen. I want fifteen plans, each certain to
succeed without the blame reaching my feet.”
“I will see it done.”
The old man turned and studied his devotee.
“You have doubts, Thomas?”
“It is not my place to doubt God’s work.”
“Earth is about to fall into an ice-age of such
duration and frigid temperatures that nothing is expected to survive. So you
wonder why God would wish to destroy one of our chances to continue mankind on
a different planet.”
The man fell to his knees and pressed his
forehead to the floor. “Forgive me, Your Holiness.”
The old man walked around the prostrate body
and returned to his red velvet chair with authentic gemstones cresting each
upholstery tack. He sat with a heavy sigh. “It is better for the human race to
die in its entirety than to survive without God.” He stared up to the arching
ceiling painted with clouds and angels. “The time has come to choose eternal
Heaven or Hell.”
The young man’s head rose. “Yes!” His face
filled with joy and wonderment. “I understand now.”
The old man’s head wobbled, perhaps in a nod.
“Then go, and see God’s will is done. Only Project Chosen can succeed. Project
Einstein must be destroyed, at all costs.”
Destination: Titan
By
Liza O’Connor
Blurb
Excerpt
Now Tam
was too confused to cry. In fact, Lancaster’s kiss had managed to completely
dislodge Dr. Tong from her mind. “Do you do that often?”
“Kiss
people I’m interrogating?” he asked with a grin.
She
nodded and blushed.
“No. In
fact, that was a first for me.”
She
stared at him in surprise. “You won’t get in trouble for it, will you?”
“No.
Weren’t you paying attention to the part where sex is allowed?”
Her face
reddened again. “Yes, but I wasn’t certain if that included you. I thought
perhaps you had to stay above it all so no one could claim you weren’t
impartial.”
“We’ll
need all the genetic possibilities we have. So I just have to make certain that
I stay above the fray even while I enjoy the company of one or more of the
women.”
One or more…
“It
would help me if you stayed out of trouble and tried not to fight with Dr.
Tong.”
Tam’s
anger started to burn. “Maybe you should have kissed her instead and told her
not to fight with me. I’ve already given my promise to Max to try to get along,
but since I’m not the one planning to cause trouble, all this affection you so
obligingly bestowed on me might be more efficiently used elsewhere.”
They
arrived at the medical examination room, and Lancaster passed her off. Seeing
no one to fight with except Dr. Bruce Willows, she gave up her anger. Just as
well. She soon discovered Dr. Willows knew every joke ever written and told
them to perfection.
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Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ
with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet
or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ,
hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive
with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky
dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid
gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts.
Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing
novels.
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