Sara joins Dale for a dinner with Scott and Diane, where they make a most unusual request. Trenton gives Dale another warning, Sara comes to a realization about Caleb and Dale is forced to consider his own behavior and choices.
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NaNoWriMo 2016 – Wrong Exit – Week 4
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NaNoWriMo 2016 – Wrong Exit – Week 3
Sara gets angry over Dale’s sharing of the details of her relation with Caleb to the others. Dale starts to test his abilities.
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NaNoWriMo 2016 – Wrong Exit – Week 2
Dale meets someone who has information on the strange exits he has found and on what they mean, and who has a warning about sharing information about them.
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NaNoWriMo 2016 – Wrong Exit – Week 1
Dale contacts some friends to try and get help figuring out what he has stumbled into, and re-opens some old wounds in the process. The information he has posted on-line about the strange exit seems to have attracted some unwanted attention, and the mysterious woman from the exit returns.
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NaNoWriMo 2016 – Wrong Exit – Week 0
Dale Carter, a medical supply courier, takes a highway exit that leads to a place that doesn’t seem to exist.
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Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – Portals – Week 4
Perry finds that no one has considered a psychological study of the teams on the far side of the Portals, but finds that they do regularly monitor all communications home. He and Peri are told to not talk to each other and to keep their observations to themselves, resulting in an unexpected but necessary arrangement to continue with their research.
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Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – Portals – Week 3
Rifts between the various teams seem to be deepening, but only Perry and his unexpected ally Perimala seem to notice anything.
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Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – Portals – Week 2
Perry gets his first taste of how things are done on the far side of the Portals, and discovers that even though every one there is part of a select group, not everyone is getting along.
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Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – Portals – Week 1
A mysterious artifact has been found that allows passage to alternate versions of the Earth, but only a select few individuals are able to pass through them.
On all of these alternate Earths, humanity is extinct.
Climatologist Percival Grayson (call me “Perry”) is the latest to learn that he has the ability to use the “Portal” and is sent to Dallas, Texas on an Earth locked in an Ice Age. What will he find there?
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Review – The Breach
The Breach by Patrick Lee Ex-corrupt cop/ex-con Travis Chase, recently released from prison, is hiking through the Alaska wilderness and trying to figure out how to get his life back together when he stumbles across the crash of an unmarked 747. Inside the crash he discovers that everyone on board has been executed, including the First Lady of the United States. A note in her hand sends him in search of the two survivors of the crash, who are being brutally tortured to force them to reveal the location of an object that could lead to the destruction of everyone and everything on Earth. And thus begins Breach, the first novel in a new thriller series by Patrick Lee. While many thiller novels by such writers as James Rollins, Jeremy Robinson or Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child skirt the edges of science fiction in their novels, Patrick Lee embraces it wholeheartedly. While it is marketed as and starts out as standard thriller fare, make no mistake; this is a science-fiction thriller. Travis soon rescues Paige Campbell, the last survivor of the crash, and learns what is happening. (Warning: Minor spoiler for the first of the novel.) Paige works for an international government organization known as Tangent. Thirty years ago, an experiment beneath Wyoming opened the “Breach” of the title; an opening to… somewhere. Various artifacts (which they call “entities”) have been coming through the Breach at regular intervals since then. Some of these entities are benign, some are very dangerous
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