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  “I am warning you, Kane, this is a bad idea.”

  I tried not to scream in anger, instead asking, “They will kill him, won’t they?” Ruber said nothing, which was all the answer I needed. I put the sword into the pack and walked back into the circle. “Open the portal, Ruber. Now!”

  The lights beneath him flared up again as he completed the circle.

  “Kane?” I heard Jewel ask from outside the circle.

  I looked up as the ashes burst into flames. I think I heard her scream, but I wasn’t sure….

  Because I was no longer there, I was no longer anywhere.

  JOHN GOODE was found in the back of a garden shed originally, and lured out by candy, he was raised on Elm Street before moving due to a rare sleep disorder. After taking off with a few friends to find a dead body, he attended Sherman High School majoring in absenteeism. Dropping out of college to work at the Gap, he struggled on perfecting his karaoke version of “Conjunction Junction” before moving on. He worked several odd jobs, first as a clerk at a record store that was open till midnight, moving to garbage collector with his brother, and then he finally decided on being a convenience store clerk who complained a lot that he wasn’t even supposed to be there that particular day. He lives with a talking cartoon dog or cat or three squirrels and has possibly ingested far too much pop culture over the years.

  Or he is this guy who lives in this place and writes stuff he hopes you read.

  By John Goode

  The Boy Behind the Red Door

  First Time for Everything

  Going the Distance

  LORDS OF ARCADIA

  Distant Rumblings

  Eye of the Storm

  With J.G. Morgan: The Unseen Tempest

  With J.G. Morgan: Stormfront

  TALES OF FOSTER HIGH

  Tales from Foster High

  To Wish for Impossible Things

  End of the Innocence

  Dear God

  151 Days

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of author imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Distant Rumblings

  © 2012 John Goode.

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  © 2012 Paul Richmond.

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  ISBN: 978-1-61372-440-8

  Digital ISBN: 978-1-61372-441-5

  Published March 2012

  v. 1.1

  Printed in the United States of America