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    The Black Hole
    The Black Hole
    The Black Hole
    Ebook162 pages38 minutes

    The Black Hole

    By L. Marie Wood

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    A group of friends head out to enjoy a much-deserved night out and paintballing is on the menu. But the team they are playing against has something entirely different in mind.

    The friends find themselves in a battle for their lives in unfamiliar terrain against well-equipped opponents whose motivations are both irrational and lethal.

     

    Considered, "… a true trip into the darkest depths of what mankind is capable of at its worst," by Midwest Book Review, this story is a classic tale of prey combined with slasher film "edge-of-your seat" vibes with a little modern-day relevance to keep you unsettled.

     

    Told two ways in this ground-breaking screenplay/novella combo, The Black Hole will keep you guessing, engaged, and very, very scared.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMocha Memoirs Press
    Release dateMar 29, 2022
    ISBN9798201273125
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      Book preview

      The Black Hole - L. Marie Wood

      The Black Hole

      L. Marie Wood

      Mocha Memoirs Press

      Contents

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      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      The Black Hole Screenplay

      About L. Marie Wood

      Copyright Notice

      The story contained therein are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      ISBN: 978-1-7371320-5-9

      Copyright© L. Marie Wood

      Cover Art by Maya Preisler

      Editor: Alexandra Christian

      Proofreader: Nicole Givens Kurtz

      Publisher: Mocha Memoirs Press

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews. Due to copyright laws you cannot trade, sell or give any e-books away.

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      1

      D amn man, gotta bring a nigga out to the boonies to play souped-up tag, Shaun said in his best thug impersonation as he looked through the fogged window of Martin’s black Cherokee Limited Edition. It was cold that morning and he could see his breath in the air when he rolled down the window to get a better look outside.

      Shaun, what’s up with the window? It’s not like it’s summer up in here, Martin said.

      Shaun was too busy making faces and hand gestures at Gary, Kevin, and Robert in the forest green Jetta following behind them to pay attention to what Martin was saying. He was pointing out the horses grazing in the field on the right side of the car and shaking his head.

      Are you sure we’re going the right way, Martin? I don’t see any street signs, Craig asked as he looked curiously at the bales of hay neatly stacked on the driven land to the left of the car. He poked Shaun and said, Are you seeing this shit? It’s like we drove out of Maryland and into the backwoods of North Carolina!

      I’ve followed the directions to the letter. They told me there wouldn’t be any street signs. Nothing but farmland in sight for miles, they said, Martin picked up the crumpled piece of paper that had the directions on it and double-checked his steps. He had been invited to play 'Capture the Flag' by a guy he worked with. It was a dare, really. Martin had heard about the paintball craze before. A lot of the kids in his area seemed to like to do it on Friday nights with flashlights on their face masks. They would go into the woods and shoot at each other like crazy, until one of the teams surrendered. It was nothing but a little fad that the kids would soon be tired of, he thought. Nothing but a fad.

      His co-worker, Jeremy, issued the paintball challenge to him one day during lunch. He said that he and a couple of his buddies go out every once in a while and horse around after work to shake the stress off. He said it was a lot of fun and a damned good release. 'Lord knows I could use that,' Martin thought while Jeremy explained the rules to him. What Jeremy told him seemed

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