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    The Web
    The Web
    The Web
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    The Web

    By Meyari McFarland

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    Ruby's world, the artificial jungle suspended from a web of synthetic cables, threatened to collapse around her. A larger than normal storm had driven a drifting ship towards the support stanchions that held up the web.

    She swam with War Tooth, the military outcast cyborg orca of the local pod, to secure it and save everyone she knew. But securing the ship was only the beginning of Ruby's fight for survival. The seas and all the creatures living in it was a bigger threat to her survival than any wayward ship.

    The Web is an exciting cyberpunk struggle to survive in a world that's surrendered to global warming and rising seas that is sure to excite.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMDR Publishing
    Release dateMar 26, 2014
    ISBN9781310434129
    The Web
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    Meyari McFarland

    Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from SF and Fantasy adventures to Romances but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Her series range from Space Opera Romance in the Drath series to Epic Fantasy in the Mages of Tindiere world. Other series include Matriarchies of Muirin, the Clockwork Rift Steampunk mysteries, and the Tales of Unification urban fantasy stories, plus many more. You can find all of her work on MDR Publishing's website at www.MDR-Publishing.com.

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      The Web - Meyari McFarland

      The Web

      By Meyari McFarland

      *Ruby?* Pike asked as she neared the lower edges of the support stanchions. *Damn it, Ruby! Answer!*

      *I'm coming," Ruby complained. *Had to go deep to avoid a shark.*

      *Thank fucking God,* Pike sighed. His voice strengthened as she went higher and higher in the water. *Where are you? War Tooth had to help someone else.*

      *I know,* Ruby said. *Above the Virginia Mason Medical Center, heading for Delta Blue stanchion. Should be back up in the web shortly.*

      Her radio waves swept outwards just as a dark dangerous shape drove at Ruby. 'Shark' flashed through her mind as she spun and flipped in the water. She had just enough time to see the shark's gaping mouth filled with hundreds of teeth before it was on her.

      Other Books by Meyari McFarland:

      Fitting In

      Artifacts of Awareness

      A Range of Debts Collection

      The Nature of Beasts

      Captured Debts Collection

      Repair and Rebuild

      Infinite Horizons Collection

      Tales from the Dana Clanhouse

      Storm Over Archaelaos

      Infinite Dreams Collection 2

      Published by Mary Raichle on Smashwords

      Copyright ©2014 by Mary Raichle

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be emailed to me_ya_ri@yahoo.com

      This book is also available in TPB format from all major retailers.

      Dedication:

      This story is dedicated to everyone who created the movie Blade Runner and Philip K Dick, author of Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? for inspiring me and so many other writers to consider humanity's future and where we all might go.

      Table of Contents

      The Web

      Ghosts of the Dead

      Afterword

      The Web

      The web shifted under Ruby's feet, synthetic proteins and spun fiberglass cables twisting and moving as she did. Around her the plants of the hanging garden grew and shifted towards the sun far overhead. Only dim grey-green light drifted down to her at this level of the web, filtered by layers of leaves and the crisscrossing web that supported all of their lives.

      Ruby couldn't see the sun but the plants knew it was there, hidden behind the ever-present storms that swept in from the Pacific Ocean to pour rain down over what used to be the Puget Sound.

      Rain from the latest storm coming in pattered down through the web's many levels of vegetation. The web was an artificial jungle that humanity had created as the sea rose up over Seattle, people's desperate attempt to keep this plot of land despite the ravages of the rising sea. For all its flaws, Ruby loved it. The web was home, better than boats or land or leaving the Earth entirely to go live in space.

      She shivered. Ruby's warm-suit had a tiny leak just below her shoulder blades that let the rain and cold seep in though it

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