"Alone" Synopsis by Moose42

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Chapter 40 is now available.

Not that it really matters or anything but I've reached 100,000 words. ;D Now before any of you guys get all upset there's still plenty of story to go. But I'm probably two thirds or three quarters of the way done.

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Chapter 41 is now up.

Some shooting, exploring, and scavenging. Hmm sounds familiar.

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Go vote.

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Chapter 42

We've got a big battle, I hope you like it.

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First go vote, yes I am talking to you lurkers.

After you've voted then you can read Chapter 43

I think there's only one more left... maybe... I dunno.

[moose42]

Well readers, we have come to the end of the story. This is the last chapter of Alone. I am beginning to feel "finishing depression" coming on. :'(

Chapter 44

I's been a wild ride, one that I have been honored to take you on. Thank you for being a part of it.

[AZMARK]

Thanks for the ride.

[randy]

Thanks. Enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next effort.

Like a sequel where a future generation of humans and allies resurrect the technology needed to go hunting the "Master" vermin that thought it would be fun to play games with us. Well, we know some really GOOD games! Anybody up for a round of "Romans and Carthaginians"?

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So I decided I needed a prologue or "chapter 0" to show why Marty misses his wife and children.

Enjoy.

[moose42]

So I'm getting ready to get piles of rejections from publishers so I figured I need a synopsis.

Let me know what you guys think.

Synopsis

Alone is the story of Martin Miller, an IT guy whose whole world changes in an instant. Everyone vanishes leaving him all alone, King of a nation of one. How is he supposed to go on when everyone he loved is gone? With only his dog for company he begins preparations for his survival. He battles insanity, until one day he picks up a short wave radio transmission from Katrina a Nuclear Research student who is clear across the country, he plans to drive to meet her but winter storms make him put his plans on hold. He finds a young woman named Sarah and he becomes a surrogate father to her. During the winter they discover a little telepathic monkey like alien who they name Furball. He explains to them an alien race called the Masters are behind the disappearance of billions of people. He begins teaching Sarah how to unlock her own telepathic abilities.

In the spring they set out for Boston. After running into the aliens who caused everyone to disappear and killing a small band of them, they find NORAD is still operational. They pick up a couple Airmen there and continue toward Boston. Along the way they run into vicious alien monsters. Marty and his crew save Katrina from the Masters. On the way back to Colorado Springs the Masters drop kinetic kill weapons on Cheyenne Mountain killing everyone inside.

They decide to try Area 51 for survivors and meet a couple of helicopter test pilots and some of the Masters sworn enemies, the Thii-Ru-Duun (Bringers of Death.) Who arrive and destroy the Masters mother-ship but not until their ships are damaged beyond repair. Now two marooned Alien races have a new battle ground, earth.

Marty’s crew travels to northern Idaho to begin a new settlement when Furball contacts his peoples Matriarch. They discover she’s being held by the Masters in Canada and is being forced to use her telepathic abilities to manipulate vicious alien beasts that threaten the survivors.

Using a Black-hawk helicopter and an alien shield generator they fly to the rescue. They save the Matriarch but the helicopter gets hit during the firefight and crashes. The survivors manage to commandeer an abandoned truck and return to their settlement. Life goes on and the survivors, begin to have children who will inherit this new and dangerous world.