Free Pulse: When Gravity Fails (Pulse Science Fiction Series Book 1) by John Freitas Page B

global disaster. Why does it matter if I have shine on my nose?”
    She said, “You will be seen all over the world in a few minutes.”
    “Still doesn’t answer my question.”
    She continued her work without responding.
    The lights flared on bright and he blinked against the glare. Someone rolled a video monitor showing a star chart into Paulo’s line of sight. Someone put a clicker on the arm of his chair.
    He held his phone out in the light. He had a signal, but it was weak. He pulled up the number and selected it before bringing the phone to his ear.
    “Jenny … no, stop talking a moment. I need to talk quickly. Are you near a television? … Yes, turn it on … Now. It doesn’t matter which one … Is that firefighter boy with you … I’m not making fun. Is he? … Okay good. Stay in your house. Listen to the broadcast and do everything I tell you … I don’t have time to explain now … Do you have it on? … Jenny? Jenny, are you there?”
    He held the phone out and cursed. Paulo scrolled to the number again. Someone took the phone from his hand and disappeared out of the light. The make-up artist vanished too. Someone put the clicker in his hand.
    A voice from out of the darkness said, “You’ll be able to hear the others through your earpiece. The red light will come on in a moment. Do not start until we say though. The others will talk first. I’ll count you in and point when you are to begin. Okay?”
    Paulo nodded and looked at the star chart on his screen. Green spots danced in his vision from the bright studio lights. He could not remember what he was supposed to say.
    He looked back forward and the red light was on. He took a deep breath and got ready to speak. Then, he remembered they were going to count him in and point. He couldn’t see though. He wondered if he had missed the signal. He stared forward without saying anything.

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    Sean Grayson and Jenny Restrepo – West Memphis, Arkansas
     
    Jenny scrolled through her contacts and tried more than one, but she was getting no signal on calls or data. “Is your phone working, Sean?”
    “I have power.” Sean turned the phone where it sat on the side table. “I’m getting no signal though. Did your father say what channel?”
    “No. He sounded frantic though. I’m scared, Sean.”
    Sean stopped flipping channels. “Looks like it doesn’t matter.”
    “Why?” Jenny set down her phone.
    “The same broadcast is on every one.” Sean leaned forward and pointed with the remote. “Isn’t that your father?”
    “Where?” Jenny sat down next to him.
    He waved the remote. “On the split screen. On the left.”
    “Turn it up.”
    “It is up.”
    “Turn it up more and stop talking.”
    Sean looked at her, but did what she said.
    The screen switched to the group of men in suits and lab coats and Jenny’s dad vanished from view. Camera bulbs flashed and the man held up a hand as he began to speak. “It is vital that the following information be given out to the world, so no interruptions or questions, please, until we have said everything that needs to be said.”
    Sean swallowed and glanced at Jenny. She was wringing her hands and sitting out on the edge of the sofa.
    Sean switched hands for the remote and put a hand on her shoulder. “Is this what your father was trying to tell us about before the cellphone cut out?”
    “I don’t know. Let’s listen.”
    The man on the screen continued. “Strange phenomenon involving fluctuations in gravity, normally considered a constant, have been experienced at various parts of the world. A few astronomers have noticed anomalies in the appearance of the stars due to these gravitational waves. Due to the regularity of the gravitational waves traveling through our solar system, the revolution of the Earth has taken us between these waves of distortion. As the Earth’s path encounters one, it travels through our planet. Movement in the Earth’s core and shifting in tectonic plates has