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Summer Koester's avatar

I'm hooked!

John Skipp's avatar

YAAAAAY!!!

Mason James Cole's avatar

Yeah, that was fucking awesome.

This shit right here:

"That less than 48 hours since the first reported miracle, what they used to call impossible was already starting to feel routine."

So much human truth there. We, right this moment, are living a miracle. Writing to one another through glowing glass that would be MAGIC at any other time in known history, and to us it's an everyday thing with a cracked screen and funky thumb smudges.

So of course we'd become inured to the miraculous--we already are!

Very excited to see where this is going!

John Skipp's avatar

THANK YOU, KIND SIR! And yes to the miraculous, already in progress!

Laura Lee Bahr's avatar

AWWW YEAH!

Mason James Cole's avatar

I like that this starts where THE BRIDGE ended, figuratively speaking--with the world transformed.

John Skipp's avatar

Oh, dude, I LOVE that observation! Which had, of course, not even remotely occurred to me. Once I start untangling the web, I see connections to my earliest wildly-optimistic pre-publishing work (which still had a whoooole lotta darkness). And THE BRIDGE was the inverted worst-case scenario of that! So I'm coming all KINDS of full circle!

James Patrick Riser's avatar

That's how I want to go. A screaming pillar of light.

Good shit man. Looking forward to more!

John Skipp's avatar

THANKS!!! Though, frankly, I'd advise against pillaring, as a rule. There's just SOOOOOO MUCH SCREEEEEEEEAMING!!!

Alisha Seaton's avatar

Oh yes, hooking me on the first page.

John Skipp's avatar

That's its job! WOOOO-HOOOOO!!! I'm so glad! THANK YOU!!!