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Our Last Steps

As we nervously queue to enter our new worlds, I sway between excitement and fear. What do we actually know about our saviours?
Only a few hours ago, it appeared in the sky. A golden belt surrounded our planet and,as it absorbed the sunlight, it resembled a giant donut, frying in the sky. While our world powers depleted the un-might of their defences on an untouchable enemy, the rest of us waited, watching the flares as they ricocheted between the glowing band and Earth’s atmosphere. When our world leaders finally ran out of ammunition, the ensuing silence, which preceded our first contact, was deafening.

Screens around the world sprang back to life, as our new rulers made their address:
“Dear Earthlings, there is no need for concern about your leaders’ violent welcome. We expected this reception and came prepared. We will not hold it against you as a species. The motivation of our visit is the incident of a powerful sun flare, which will imminently set your planet ablaze.
To save your kind,we decided to relocate all citizens of Earth.Designation of your new posts has been determined based on suitability, temperament and interests. Family units will remain intact. We are currently setting up portals for transportation, which will commence in five Earth minutes.
However, relocation is only available to those who were not allocated space in shelters. Any persons who were informed of this disaster and assigned a place in a shelter, should proceed to, and enter their place of safety as planned. We advise you not to exit until at least 8128 Earth days have past.
All other humans are invited to move to a new home in this Cosmos, in one of your five neighbouring Universes. Please, depart your residence and make your way to the nearest portal. Transport of other Earth species has already commenced.”

It may sound disrespectful, and disrespectful is the last thing you’d want to be in the face of extra-terrestrial visitors who dropped in to save your bacon, but really, they look like donuts. Six-feet-tall golden hoops, shimmering with icing, inviting us to step through a tall circular portal.My better half, whose hand is clasped in a bruising grip which until today I didn’t realise I possessed, prefers to refer to them as halos. And I guess he’s right, we should reserve our disdain for our leaders and politicians, who appropriated a place of safety whilst leaving their loyal taxpayers out to fry.
We are almost there now. Bluebell and Banjo, our cats, disappeared before we left our home, and the family in front of us said their goldfish, Sharkfin, vanished from his bowl during the broadcast. I see all four of them holding hands as they step through the giant donut, sorry, halo, set up at the corner of our street. It’s our turn. As we take our last steps on our birth planet, I catch a glimpse of our new home.
It is stunning.

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The Cool Breeze of Spring – Rebecca’s diary,

companion to my novel, The Cool Breeze of Spring - A new beginning,
will be free on Amazon until Monday 12 November.

When 12-year-old Rebecca Riverton finds herself alone in the world, she decides to take her horse Flock and ride east in the hope of finding other survivors like her.
She finds a new home and new friends at Hever Castle, where she forges a new future for herself, as she gains the respect of both humans and aliens.

In her diary, Rebecca describes her emotions and adventures, as she adapts and flourishes in a new world where prejudices and stereotypes of the past have disappeared.

Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cool-Breeze-...
Also free in other Amazon stores, of course.

I noticed this morning that Amazon deleted all the reviews on my pages. So, any reviews are welcome, while I try to convince Amazon to re-post them. But please, don’t feel obligated to post a review.

Simply enjoy Rebecca’s diary,

C. Attleya

The Cool Breeze of Spring - A flying start

31-year-old Lucas is perfectly happy with his uneventful life as the captain of his own whale watching boat in Canada’s Ultimate East. But then he is told that the world that he is so familiar with is about to end, and he needs to select seven companions to restart a new human population.

Lucas selects the woman of his dreams, Charlotte, a marine biologist and his tour guide, and six brilliant teens from a special needs school.

Read more about this special group of people as they face dangers and find their way before and after the Event.

Expected publication date: November 2018

The Cool Breeze of Spring - A flying start
by
C. Attleya

Also published in August 2018, a companion novel to 'The Cool Breeze of Spring - A new beginning':

The Cool Breeze of Spring - Rebecca's diary
When 12-year-old Rebecca Riverton finds herself alone in the world, she decides to take her horse Flock and ride east in the hope of finding other survivors like her.
She finds a new home and new friends at Hever Castle, where she forges a new future for herself as she gains the respect of both humans and aliens.

In her diary, Rebecca describes her emotions and adventures as she adapts and flourishes in a new world where prejudices and stereotypes of the past have disappeared.

Published in August 2018

The Cool Breeze of Spring - A new beginning
18 September 8.40 am Will you be removed from Earth, when you smell that cool breeze of spring?

If you were consulted, would you vote to have most of humanity removed from Earth?
Who would you choose as your seven companions to restart a new population?

The Neteru are a species who seeded Earth as an ecological experiment, but now humans are about to mess up so catastrophically that Earth needs a reset. Caila and 12 other descendants of the first human seedlings are asked to advice on the future of Earth’s human population. Caila senses an instant strong connection with her Neteruian contact Mateos. But after Caila shows unexpected Neteruian skills Mateos is forced to admit that she is different from the other Khered.

After the reset Event, Caila and her group pick up some unexpected survivors. 12-year-old Rebecca is feisty and frighteningly intelligent and decides to start training as a doctor. After an attack by self-pronounced Prime Minister Baldwin Caila is forced to confront her own complicated background. This confrontation finally fills in the blanks for Caila but comes at a great cost. Then, a second more sophisticated attack by Baldwin has catastrophic consequences for Caila’s group and threatens to derail this new beginning.