HOOKAH
Insanity Book 4
by Cameron Jace
YA Fantasy/Fairy Tales
256
A Plague Scarier than Death
Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who’d lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much.
A Cure Larger than Life
The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar’s darker pasts.
A Truth Madder Than Fiction
This time, the price of saving the world is too high. Alice will have to live with the consequences of the maddest logic of the world surrounding her.
Will Alice find who the Pillar really is? What he wants? Is she brave enough to handle the one Wonderland Monster she’d thought was a good friends? And even so, is the world ready the truth?
EXCERPT
“She’s not my daughter.” The Pillar
purses his lips. He’s pissed at me. I know it. But you know what? I love the
mushrooms’ effect. Because I don’t freakin’ care. “Don’t pay attention to her.”
“I’m beginning to lose my patience,” the
machine gun man says. “You don’t know the password, and your daughter is a
lunatic.”
“I told you she isn’t my daughter,” I
hear the Pillar say while I’m trying to catch a diamond from the sky. “And I
don’t know the answer to your puzzle. Divide a loaf by a knife? What kind of
mathematical question is that?”
“Wrong answer.” The man is about to shoot
the Pillar while I’m chasing stars.
This is when I find myself standing
before the Pillar to protect him. “You will not shoot my father!” I have no
idea what I am saying, or why I am saying it. It’s strange that in the middle
of my hallucination I care for the Pillar.
“Tell her to move, or I will shoot you
both,” the machine gun man warns.
Then another totally bonkers thing
happens. This time it’s too insane to swallow.
“Tell you what? You look like you’re
itching to shoot someone today,” the Pillar says, pushing me away toward the
man. “Why not shoot her, and let me pass?”
Suddenly, I am two feet away from the
machine gun itself, unable to determine if what I just heard was part of my
hallucination or for real.
My attempt to turn back and confront the
Pillar goes out the window when the machine gun man decides he’s had it with
me.
He shoots me straight in the chest.
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Expert 2:
"Have you
ever jumped out of a plane in a parachute, down to meet up with people who’d
take selfies of your blood on their faces for breakfast?
I am doing it right now. And guess what,
it’s nighttime, so not only am I free-falling, but I am also doing it in the
dark. That’s what I call a bonus.
Throwing away the Pillar’s goggles, I
hear the plane explode in midair above me.
Oh my god, this is for real!
“I’ve always wanted to blow up my
employees,” the Pillar shouts all the way down. I am not sure how I can hear
him. “But you’ll be fine. Just pull the red lever when I tell you to.”
In spite of all the madness, I feel
unexpectedly fine up here in the air. Fine is an understatement. I feel
euphoric. I want to feel like this every day. It’s ridiculous how much I am
enjoying this, although I may get face-palmed by the earth in a few seconds.
Mary Ann, also known as Alice Wonder, 19
years old, dead and gone. I imagine the scripture on my grave says. But
who cares? She was mad anyways.
Suddenly I realize that the madness hasn’t
started yet. Not at all.
Down below, I can see something
glittering. The vast land where we’re landing is nothing but an endless field
of ridiculously over-sized mushrooms.
Big mushrooms growing everywhere,
whitening up the black of the night.
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Cameron Jace is the bestselling author of the Grimm Diaries and Insanity series. A graduate of the college of Architecture, collector of out-of-print books, he is obsessed with the origins of folk tales and the mysterious storytellers who spread them. Three of his books made Amazon's Top 100 Customer Favorites in Kindle 2013 & Amazon's Top 100 kindle list. Cameron lives in California with his girlfriend. When he isn't writing or collecting books, he is playing music.
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