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Lonely is the Night: A Short Story Kindle Edition

by Christopher Holliday (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
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John is a sixth year senior slacking his way through a college education, while his roommate and a group of undergrads are fast-tracking their way toward a Nobel Prize. With no other way to stake his own claim to fame, John agrees to be their wormhole guinea pig. What could possibly go wrong?

This short story appeared in print in Fortress magazine.
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    13 pages
  2. Language
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publication date
    January 5, 2016
  5. File size
    1481 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01A9082ZK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (January 5, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 5, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1481 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 13 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 41 ratings

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Christopher Holliday

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Christopher Holliday was abducted from his home in Southern California at a young age and raised by wolves in small town New England. He spent the better part of high school writing stories in spiral notebooks, finished his first two novels shortly after graduation, and wisely shelved them.

An award winning author, he writes character driven stories with genre wide ideas. His publishing credits include dozens of science fiction short stories in magazines and anthologies, as well as mainstream stories in college and literary presses.

Holliday is the creator of Marketlist.com, the first digital market resource for writers. He has been a script and screenplay editor and story consultant, while continuing to write genre short stories and two novels in progress.

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3.6 out of 5 stars
3.6 out of 5
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Shay VanZwoll
5.0 out of 5 stars Journey though a wormhole... Nothing can go wrong, right?
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2016
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When a group of college grads and undergrads manage to create a wormhole, John volunteers as a human guinea pig to test the wormhole before funding is cut. After all, what can go wrong?

In this brilliant short story, we follow along with John on his journey... but where he goes is the real story. Is it a parallel world? Time travel? Or simply distance? I'm left to wonder if the timing of the wormhole is a coincidence...

Well written with enough mystery to keep you pondering the events past the ending of the story itself, this is a fun and interesting story that I will certainly be recommending.
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Brittany
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2016
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I felt lost during some of the story. I felt like John where the science was way over my head. Despite this, it was a good story and now I want to see what happens next. I don't know if there is a next, but I definitely want to know what it is.
I received this book free from one of the book subscription emails.
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ck762
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2016
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This is an interesting short story... don't think I'll be checking out more by this author right now, but maybe in the future
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Gregg C
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Read
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2016
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Different than what you will normally read but it is very interesting to see what happens each time that they manipulate the time line . Would have loved for it to be longer and see just where the story was headed. All in all a good read.
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Michael Gardner
5.0 out of 5 stars Short but well worth reading
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2016
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I wish this story had been longer. It works perfectly well as a short story, but I could’ve happily indulged in a more fleshed out version. I thoroughly enjoyed every page and was left wanting more. That’s a mark of good writing and a compliment to the author. It's an intriguing story, reminds me of The Butterfly Effect meets the theory of the multiverse. Definitely a good introduction to Christopher Holliday’s work. I’ll read more.
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Kristi
2.0 out of 5 stars This was an interesting read although it was a bit ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018
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This was an interesting read although it was a bit above my head. I didn't quite understand exactly what was happening toward the end.
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D. A. Torres
5.0 out of 5 stars Great intriguing short story
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2016
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I liked the short story and the future is wide open but seemingly bleak for or naked protagonist. Will he ever make it home or do the infinite threads keep him forever separated.
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mich
5.0 out of 5 stars Time for more
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016
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An intriguing short story that makes you want more.
Well written but in need of many more chapters to gain a conclusion.
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Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping story
Reviewed in Canada on October 20, 2017
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Great story that engages the reader immediately and leaves you wanting it to last much longer. Too bad it's only a short story!
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L. MacL
3.0 out of 5 stars Too many unanswered questions.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2016
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Lonely is the Night is , as it says, a short story.
Although it was reasonably well written I felt there were too many unanswered questions for me about what was happening. Leaves you pondering whatever happened to him and where it went wrong.
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