WILD HORSE (a novelette) by Kyle Richardson
EBOOK RELEASE DATE: 7/30/19
GENRE: Dystopian, Superhero, YA, Novelette
Synopsis
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Grady finds it in the spring, when the leaves are sprouting from the trees in tiny pink-green buds. There are no trees in the courtyard, there’s only dirt and rocks and other kids that look like Grady—their heads shaven, their clothes loose and gray, the skin under their eyes a creamy blue and red. But Grady has found a crack in the wall, a crack that wasn’t there before—a crack that isn’t supposed to be. Whenever the guards aren’t looking, he leans his face against the wall and peers through the crack at the world outside. He does this with his left eye first. Always his left eye first. The gap is so tiny it’s like squinting through a nostril. But in that nostril there’s the sky, purple as a bruise, and beneath it there are scrawny trees with tiny pink-green buds. Today the trees bend and sway, like they know Grady’s watching. Like they’re dancing just for him. And his cracked lips spread until he’s smiling, big and dumb.
This is when he hears the voice. “What’re you looking at?” The voice comes from behind him, small and smooth and wild, like the picture of the horse taped to the ceiling above his cot. It knocks something loose in him, something that tumbles free, something that falls but doesn’t seem to ever land. Whatever it is, it just keeps on falling, lost somewhere inside him. Grady frowns and squirms, but the stupid feeling doesn’t quit. “Go away,” he tells the voice. He doesn’t bother to turn. “I’m looking at spring,” he adds, “but you wouldn’t know what that is.”
The voice that’s like a wild horse, it tells him, “I do too know what spring is. And I know that you’re mean and I don’t like you.” Then the voice is gone, and a guard walks by, and Grady looks away from the wall as if the crack isn’t there at all. And stomping away from him straight across the courtyard, like she’s trying to knock the world off orbit with the weight of her footsteps alone, is a skinny girl with loose gray clothes and raspberry-yellow hair.
Grady raises his eyebrows. Whatever that thing is inside him, it tumbles even faster.
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Kyle lives in the suburban wilds of Canada with his adorable wife, their rambunctious son, and their adventurous daughter. He writes about shapeshifters, superheroes, and the occasional clockwork beast, moonlights as an editor at Meerkat Press, and has a terrible habit of saying the wrong thing at the most inopportune moments. His short fiction has appeared in places such as Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology and Daily Science Fiction.
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The colours on the cover are so striking! It sounds like an interesting book. Thanks for sharing it. 🙂
The minute I laid my eyes on the cover I wanted to know more!
I love the cover artwork! Sounds like a great book.
It really is cover art:)
This sounds really cool and the cover has some of my favorite cover combos. Thanks for sharing it!
It does sound good and I also like this kind of cover.
I love the sound of this😊
So do I!
Sounds like a good book.
I want to find out:)
I like the cover
Me too!
oh I LOOOVE this cover. for some reason I’m a sucker for that kind of art. “a world beyond the walls” is a very intriguing sentence!
I always stop and explore more with covers like this too!
i saw this one and almost signed up for it. sounds like a great book
sherry @ fundinmental
It’s right up my alley!
thanks this sounds like a great book
It does sound intriguing and I enjoy the genre.
I think I’d like this so it’s going on my TBR list 😉
I’m curious how the title ties into the story:)
This sounds like a good read. Thank you for sharing the book info.
I hope to be able to read it soon:)