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The Second Rat [MultiFormat]
eBook by David Barr Kirtley
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Todd Rawlins has discovered that he has the incredible ability to rewind time, to instantly return to any point in his past and begin anew. But every action has consequences, and he is about to discover that some things can't be taken back.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: On Spec, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [238 KB], eReader (PDB) [30 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [17 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [17 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [77 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [88 KB], hiebook (KML) [103 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [50 KB], iSilo (PDB) [14 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [18 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [46 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [27 KB]
Words: 5243
Reading time: 14-20 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
This eBook's title had nothing to do with appeal for me. But I had seen enough of Kirtley to know with certainty that I was reading it. Couldn't lose out, hell no. Still, I wasn't sure at the start of it the level of my enjoyment. The tale surprised me. An intelligent, insightful Sci-Fi wonder, it embraces the concept of time travel with brilliance. Written in the first person, it is both sensitive and brutal. Yet one cannot help but read on, glutting words with wonderment. The protagonist, Todd Rawlings is almost cavalier about his ability to revisit the past to change the course of events. Then in most horrible circumstance, half-naked and trapped in a private hell, his gift fails. 'Rewind a few months. Rewind a few--months. Rewind!' Nothing happens. Suspense. Anguish! Todd is stricken, wrecked, incoherent. Alone on a loose patch of dirt and yellow desert grass under a horrible Nevada sky. 'Rewind a few months. Please.' Read this eShort. By Jove, read it. -Eugen Bacon, Fictionwise Recommender
My wife, Debbie, has been talking to that damn visiting nurse again.
"She says you're dying," Debbie tells me, hollowly.
I can barely speak. I try, but my lips move awkwardly. I say, "She's right."
I want it to happen at home, with my family. I'm feeble now, frail. My face is twisted and I can't untwist it. I try to avoid looking in the mirror.
Debbie feels my forehead, as if that might help. "You're too warm." She twists the blinds closed. A line of sunlit dots stretches across the blanket near my ankles.
"You're still so young," she says, absently.
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