Sample 1 — Descent

Sample fiction — replace this chapter with your finished story.

From the helicopter, the facility looked like a clearing somebody had forgotten to finish. Concrete disappeared under vines. A service road ended at a door set into the hill. Marcus checked the map for the third time, though the pilot had already begun to descend.

At the landing zone, Lolita waved them toward a row of waiting carts. John stretched his shoulders, then looked past the guards to the tunnel entrance. A bell rang somewhere inside it. Price stepped off last, his shoes finding the dry strip of pavement between two puddles. He looked at the sealed doors and said, “Let them in.”