What’s
your favorite thing to do when you’re not taking care of the animals?
I like to go
around on my bicycle. Before I started traveling for the Eclipse, a bike was
how I always got around my home town of New York City. I’ve actually never
owned my own car.
What
is it about your love interest Prisca that makes you crazy in a good way?
Wow, who have you
been talking to? Don’t get me wrong, Ms. Chubb is great, but she’s my
supervisor, not my lover. Yeah we spend a lot of time together but I wouldn’t
say we are crazy about each other.
Do
you sometimes want to strangle your writer? Thrash her to within an inch of
their life? Make them do the stupid crap they makes you do?
You mean that me
attacking her is an option? You bet I want to! My life was going great and I
loved my job when she decides to make me become indebted to a secretive company
called the Eclipse, that has a bad reputation. When my bosses hear I’m dealing
with them, they simply cut me loose to try and avoid controversy. The Eclipse
does take me in, so I guess that’s something. But I certainly didn’t try to set
myself against that little twerp she lets the focus of the story focus shift
onto. And in all that happens, I tried to talk calmly with Nigel, just went
along with what he set up; he’s the one who attacked me! That irritating writer
still tries to paint it like I’m somehow the bad guy.
Favorite
food?
That’s a change
of pace, did I get too excited with the last question? Hmmm, I guess I like hot
dogs.
Tell me a little bit about
your world. What are your greatest challenges in that world?
I’m a zookeeper, I can keep my cool with
supposedly dangerous animals. I guess I find animals more reasonable than
people sometimes.
Describe
yourself in four words.
Reasonable,
strong, trusting, kind
What
do you do for a living?
I worked at the
Central Park Zoo, now keep control of dangerous creatures that the Eclipse is
collecting.
What
do you fear the most?
I fear that other
people’s bad decisions and my own hesitations might leave me standing against
what is right.
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Blurb:
The Eclipse Co. is evil.
Ronald Carpenter
receives help from this secretive company, but he has no clue how it will
change his life. Can their offer of a higher salary make it worthwhile for him
to give up the job he loves, and help with activities that he feels are just
wrong?
What makes
someone agree to act like a monster?
Nigel Hunter’s
experiment looks like it could enable incredible powers. When he gets the
Eclipse’s help to try it upon himself, the company decides that he needs to be taken
prisoner to test it fully.
When what the
Eclipse does pits Ronald and Nigel against one another, can either one of them
escape?
Excerpt:
Prisca wasted no time. Without even asking what
it was, she offered to double my current salary if I could immediately agree to
take a high position in their nation-wide test-subject handling team. Although
that seemed a generous offer, I had to tell her that I enjoyed living in New
York.
“That’s no problem,” she insisted; “we have a
far-reaching set of operations. You could really be centered just about
anywhere in the country that you want. We only need a person who could be
available for emergencies. Someone for when the situation could use a little
more thought and tact than we expect from either Roscoe or Bucky who aren’t
truly based anywhere either.”
I’d like to say that the money made no
difference, that the new job’s questionable moralities stood no chance at
making me turn my back on the job that I loved; yet that is a lie I have
trouble trying to sell that idea to myself.
That, and the idea of importance that would come
from a job for a company who seemed to be willing to ship me about the whole
country if not the whole world just for my own expertise wasn’t slightly
tempting. A job as ‘Animal Security Manager’ for The Eclipse would be much
easier to talk about than a profession where I still have far too many people
react like I just claimed to do nothing more than shovel lion droppings all
day.
So perhaps I did agree with a small twinge of
greed in my heart. Perhaps I was a little quick to sign all of the happy
non-disclosure forms without any qualm. I am sure that developing products and
testing their effects when used as weapons might hold secrets to make whatever
we’re developing ineffective if word of how they are put together did get out.
Requiring me to keep my mouth shut was simply nothing more than a logical
precaution.
Right?
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Bio:
I was born
in Houston Texas in the spring of 1982. I grew up in Texas and Louisiana. I was
an intern for Lockheed-Martin out of high school and got to work on computers
at NASA Houston for the company. I graduated from Clear Creek High School in
League City, Texas with a national merit scholarship in 2000. In November of
2000 I was in a car wreck while traveling to college at The University of Texas
at Dallas and the wreck left me in a coma for 6 months. After waking, I have written
and self-published short fantasy and science-fiction stories online.
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