Magic Time
Angelfire
Excerpt
Chapter OneGoldie
I have that dream every night. The day the wheels came off the world. Bye-bye physics. Natural laws, who needs 'em?
And every morning I wake, realizing it's all real.
Okay, no buildings literally melted, nor did the sidewalks and streets actually roll like ocean waves. But the whole world experienced it, this moment of cosmic mayhem, this thing most of us refer to simply as "the Change." At least, we think it did. Nothing we've seen in the intervening weeks has suggested otherwise.
I have other dreams, too, also terrifying, also rooted in so-called reality. One of them is about a girl named Tina Griffin. Like our world, she changed - or began to change - in that moment of upheaval. So did a lot of other people. But Tina's in my nightmares because I know her. She is the reason we left New York, the reason we head inexorably west - because her brother Cal has the same nightmare, and because that's where the Megillah has taken her.
The Megillah is my pet name for what all the evidence points to as the cause of the Change. No one else calls it that. They have t ... read full excerpt from Magic Time: Angelfire ebook
