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wounded leg, and took the umbrella from his assailant, batting it at those around him.

  Inside the car, Myra watched as blood streaked across his windows and the giant lumbered against his attackers. A deep sound of thunking behind, and then on top of him. He watched in horror as another group of children climbed atop his car and pounced on the chauffeur, driving screwdrivers into his neck and back. A young man flanking him began to pound mercilessly and repeatedly into the increasingly dented bald head with a wrench.

  Myra crawled through the window into the driver's seat, breathlessly praying that the keys were still in the ignition. They were. The engine coughed and groaned as he whispered under his breath, praying for it to burst into life, and as a red rain started washing down on the windshield, from the hole made after the screwdriver was removed from the giant's carotid artery, he pulled the car into reverse and hit the accelerator. Speeding back down to Northway as the residents of the cul-de-sac pounced on the driver's barely-moving body. Each was going to have their pound of flesh, and he had plenty of flesh to go around.

  Myra drove and drove, no clue where the airfield was, no clue which direction to go. He looked at his own reflection in the rear view mirror, at the blood starting to dry on his cheek. He would continue on that road until it joined the next road, and then continue on and on until signs for an airport, any airport, were in view.

  The project was too close to fruition. Losing one driver would not be the end of it. It couldn't be the end of it. Some adjustments needed to be made, that was all. Minor adjustments, and by the time the NLI-10 had been flushed from the systems of the people of Skelmersdale, it would be time to test again.

  Next time, it would work.

  And as an addendum to that thought, he made a mental note that on that next time, he would send an aide to investigate how the townspeople were getting on. He was far too important to risk.

 

  Not that there would be any risk.

  But still... Can't be too careful about these things.

  Beta is a sequel to the free short story 'The Whistle', available

  as an audiobook & ebook.

  synopsis

  Inspired by a series of whistleblowers over the last few years, Scott and Jennifer decide the work they've been doing for their nefarious employers needs to be brought into the light.

  But the company is far more prepared, and willing to go further than either of them could have ever expected, to make sure the whistle stays silent.

  Both 'Beta' and 'The Whistle' are

  spin-offs of the novel 'NLI-10',

  available on Amazon as an audiobook, ebook & paperback.

  synopsis

  Sarah is a burn-out. After her parent's death, her twenties have been wasted in a psychedelic haze.

  Now she wants to be sober, avoid temptation, so she joins a clinical trial to be sequestered away from the world.

  Paranoia flows as weird experiments are carried out on their waking and sleeping bodies. The subjects realize the trial is changing them. Programming them. Installing false memories and removing emotions.

  If they don't do something before their tenure ends, they might not be human when they leave.

  The short stories are also related

  to the novella 'Footage'.

  Available May 2nd from ABAM.info.

  synopsis

  In a city of ten million, under glass eyes of six million cameras, one man evades their networked stares, and watches those who are watched.

  It had always been Jared's passion to observe, and for the last fifteen years, it was his job.

  His days are spent deducing the stories of strangers' lives from momentary glimpses of present actions in streets, train stations and airports.

  Filming everything.

  But Jared is starting to see more.

  He spends every free moment pouring over the footage, and fate is bringing other observers into his life, teaching him how to push his skills further.

  Before he knows it, he starts looking beyond the present, seeing the past in more detail than ever, perhaps even glimpsing the future.

  But he's also hearing voices, thinks he's being followed, surveilled, and has no idea how much - if any of it - is real.

  All he knows, is that if he wants answers, he has to keep watching.

  About ABAM.INFO

  ABAM, or 'A Book A Month', is a terrible experiment to see how long a former screenwriter can produce an original novella every month (along with companion audiobooks and occasional free short stories) before he goes insane.

  Alternating between dramatic and comedic prose, the books are released on the first Monday of every month.

  If you've enjoyed this story in any capacity, do please review it at Goodreads and Amazon – I read them all and will no doubt veer towards writing more of what you like.

  More information about future releases, book trailers, soundtracks and more, can be found at https://ABAM.info

  Thank you kindly for being an observer to my mental deterioration.

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  At 21, Cassie’s life sucks. So on a whim, she starts farming her decisions out to Twitter.

  Before she knows it, the lives of her family and friends hang in the balance, and she’s racing against the clock to discover who’s pulling her strings.

  Dead City

  Jon Gilligan is the only living man in a city of the undead.

  He narrates his daily routine in the style of a noir detective, casting himself as a hero to all those around him.

  When he stumbles on to a conspiracy, it's time for him to be a hero for real, break out of the city and his noir fantasy to save London's Dead City from itself.

  NLI-10

  To Sarah, taking part in a clinical trial seems like an easy way to make money. As the trial gets underway, she and the other subjects start to realise that it's changing them, programming them, installing false memories and taking away their emotions one by one. If they don't do something about it before their tenure ends, they might not be human much longer.

  I Hate Time Travelers

  Five years ago, everyone became a time traveller. Everyone but Luke, who now lives in a world where practical jokes are up 60,000%, his roommate insists on having 12-self orgies in front of him, and every potential girlfriend has dumped him for stuff he hasn't done yet.

  Luke suddenly finds himself on the run from a government agency with the intention of slicing him up for experimentation.

  No wonder he hates time travellers...

  About The Author

  Lee Isserow is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, with over fifteen years spent trawling the back streets and dark alleys of the 'entertainment' industry.

  He's pretty sure he has some traits of autism, because he's been constantly working and obscenely prolific for the entire duration, writing over a hundred screenplays, many of which he's adapting into forthcoming books, because very few people are willing to turn them into movies. For now.

  He lives in Liverpool, England because he accidentally bought a house there. He's not quite sure how that happened – but assumes part of that is because he used to drink a lot.

  If you'd like to watch the pretty things he makes, you may find them at LeeIsserow.com.

  You may also interact, call him names, and read his awful jokes and observations on Twitter: @Lee_Isserow.

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