Mangled is the artificial intelligence, virtual reality, military, scifi, horror story that was first published in the Midnight Roost anthology, but is now its own novelette!
This narrative follows Specialist Sarah Mitchell:
The only survivor of a roadside bomb,
Specialist Sarah Mitchell lives most people's nightmare. Her entire
squad is killed. In the bustle of a busy emergency triage center, she is
forgotten.
Worse
than being ignored, once she is reevaluated, the medical personnel then
abandoned her. In order to take care of
other soldiers who might live, she is given a black morgue tag, left
tied down on a gurney where she waits for death in a dark corner of a
foreign
hospital.
When she survives until morning, others come to claim
her. One by the use of technology and the other by energetic
consciousness, but both manipulate the quantum singularity. In an
experiment to merge human consciousness with machine, which will consume
Sarah, what will she do?
Will
she continue to serve her country in another capacity? Or, will she
choose the unknown and walk into eternity with a complete stranger?
No matter what Sarah decides: living forever has its consequences.
In this new publication, the story becomes extended and part of the Legacy Universe.
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Experience the deeper motifs of Mangled through its music. This EP (Extended Play) album consists of four songs and one instrumental.
A writer at heart, Undawnted’s own creative spark, DL Mullan, began
writing short stories and poetry before adolescence. Over the years, Ms.
Mullan has showcased her literary talents by self-publishing several
collections of her poetry. She also writes novels, designs apparel, and
creates digital art. Ms. Mullan‘s creative writing is available in
digital and print collections, from academia to commercial anthologies.
As an independent publisher, she produces her own book cover designs as
well as maintains her own websites. She is an award-winning digital
artist and poet.
The short story, The Initiation, was submitted to the Midnight Oil Anthology published by WordCrafter Press. The narrative leaves off where The Reality Hackers (Visions anthology, as well as Sonoran Dawn Studios novelette) did. John and Elleanor Chisum have been murdered, leaving their three children orphaned.
The Chisums' daughter, Eliza, is finding her first year in college a challenge. When she writes a research paper for her introduction to physics course, the professor gives her a failing grade. Like her mother, Eliza sees beyond the five senses as a conduit of pure consciousness.
The Initiation also provides a cameo from the popular character, Sarah Mitchell, from Mangled (Midnight Roost anthology, as well as Sonoran Dawn Studios' novelette) and Hode: Be Honor in Your Wars (Sonoran Dawn Studios' novel).
This story is its own stand-alone novelette for publication through the Legacy Universe next year.
Join all the character excitement and bring the story to life!
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A writer at heart, Undawnted’s own creative spark, DL Mullan, began
writing short stories and poetry before adolescence. Over the years, Ms.
Mullan has showcased her literary talents by self-publishing several
collections of her poetry. She also writes novels, designs apparel, and
creates digital art. Ms. Mullan‘s creative writing is available in
digital and print collections, from academia to commercial anthologies.
As an independent publisher, she produces her own book cover designs as
well as maintains her own websites. She is an award-winning digital
artist and poet.
Thank you to Joseph Carrabis for publishing my article: Being Mangled is Just the Beginning on his blog for the Midnight Roost horror anthology.
Mangled is a sci-fi, horror short story about life, death, and technology, but more importantly, it is a story about Sarah Mitchell, a Specialist in the armed forces:
The only survivor of a roadside bomb,
Specialist Sarah Mitchell lives most people's nightmare. Her entire
squad is killed. In the bustle of a busy emergency triage center, she is
forgotten.
When she survives until morning, others come to claim
her. One by the use of technology and the other by energetic
consciousness, but both manipulate the quantum singularity. In an
experiment to merge human consciousness with machine, which will consume
Sarah, what will she do?
Will
she continue to serve her country in another capacity? Or, will she
choose the unknown and walk into eternity with a complete stranger?
No matter what Sarah decides: living forever has its consequences.
This short story is an important dialogue starter about the potential harnessing of human consciousness into cybernetic technologies.
From the author of the cutting-edge science fiction classic, The Reality Hackers, DL Mullan has brought readers a new type of horror: eternal slavery through technology.
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