Cherry Blossom Girls – Harmon Cooper (1)

Veronique sat down in a purple armchair and crossed one leg over the other. Again, ambiguity in the response. I decided to try a different line of questioning: “Okay, let’s start here. Who were they?” With a small sigh, Veronique started up a story that seemed familiar, if it weren’t for the fact that it was entirely true. She explained how she had been born in the lab, or at least a lab like it, and the same thing was true for Grace.

She didn’t know all the terminology – and hell if I knew – but basically, they were the results of some type of powerful gene editing that allowed them to have their powers, and other people could also have these types of powers, if only their genes could be modified.

The lab where they’d spent a good amount of their life was called the Rose-Lyle Facility, and Veronique and Grace had only physically met once before. Because of Grace’s abilities, she was kept in isolation, but Veronique recalled playing with her once, when they were younger. “How did you know it was her?” “We have similar features,” was her answer. “What is the ultimate goal of this experiment?

Why was it started in the first place?” She didn’t know the exact answer to this, but I didn’t need to harken back to a comic written during the Cold War to know that it likely had something to do with building a super soldier. I remembered thinking at the time how this again felt like a trope, but then, most things in my life felt like a trope.

Veronique was a bit more social than Grace and had gone on the hunt for others before. This was why she was allowed out, whereas Grace had to escape. With Veronique, they could simply keep her away from people to feed on and she would lose her power. After all, she fed, and was nourished, by touching people and depleting their energy, and her metal-wielding abilities became obsolete if she were placed in a plastic cell, of which they had two of different sizes for when she misbehaved.

“I was always good when we went out. Never out of line.” “Until last night.” She shrugged. “And who had you gone after before?” “Others.” I probed more, but that was all I could get out of her. The usual story of torture – future and past – became evident as Veronique relived some of her experiences. She’d gone through a hell of a lot to become the hardened young woman that sat before me.

They’d put her through various psyop drills, from locking her in a small cellar for a week to one occurrence in which they abandoned her in an unknown location and she’d had to get back to civilization. Which was pretty much a kill-fest.

Copyright © 2018 by Harmon Cooper Copyright © 2018 Boycott Books Edited by Dalton Lynne Audiobook by Justin Thomas James, Annie Ellicott, Laurie Catherine Winkel, and Jeff Hays at Soundbooth Theater www.harmoncooper.com [email protected] Twitter: @_HarmonCooper All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. 1kitap1.com/en Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter One: Dark and Stormy Chapter Two: You’re a Psychic Shifter, and I’m a Terrible Writer Chapter Three: No Naked Moms in the Morning Chapter Four: Shifting in Public Chapter Five: Adjusting Grace’s Stats Chapter Six: Stolen Pizza and the Idea of a Lifetime Chapter Seven: Data Breach Chapter Eight: The Second Cherry Blossom Girl Chapter Nine: Getting Rid of Dead Bodies Ain’t Easy Chapter Ten: Snuff Videos Chapter Eleven: Hooking up in Stamford Chapter Twelve: Two Days to Write a Book (or Death) Chapter Thirteen: Creative Nonfiction Gamer Sci-Fi?

Chapter Fourteen: Steak and Shrimp with Veronique Chapter Fifteen: A Hand in the Shower Chapter Sixteen: We Will Destroy Them All Chapter Seventeen: Memories Revisited Chapter Eighteen: Heavy Metal Orchestra Chapter Nineteen: Angel Chapter Twenty: Stitched Up Chapter Twenty-One: Ready to Die? Chapter Twenty-Two: Coming Clean to Luke Chapter Twenty-Three: Cherry Blossoms Revisited Chapter Twenty-Four: Easy Access Chapter Twenty-Five: The Plastic Room Chapter Twenty-Six: Calling Angel Out Chapter Twenty-Seven: Goodbye, Cruel World Chapter Twenty-Eight: Cherry Blossom Girls, Inc.

Get connected with other LitRPG readers 1kitap1.com/en Chapter One: Dark and Stormy It was a dark and stormy night when a nude woman showed up on my doorstep. Really, it was, and sure, calling it a dark and stormy night is a literary no-no, but I was a writer – still am, even after all this – and I’m granted at least one hackneyed phrase.

Besides, I wasn’t kidding when I said it was dark and stormy. Nor was I kidding about the mysterious nude woman. The electricity had cut off an hour ago, and a candle that smelled like pipe tobacco was the only thing lighting my tiny basement apartment. It was cold, and even though I was tucked under a New England Patriots blanket my aunt and uncle had given me for Christmas last year, I could barely feel my toes.

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