Chapter 1 “Peculiar” Max thought the shake he felt was occurring in his dream. When the ground beneath him shook again, he awoke with a startle. Impossible, he thought, nothing could shake the island. Getting up, he glanced out his window. Fonteyn, the name of the city as well as the island, was intact. How? He wondered. Fonteyn wasn’t just an island. It was the only island, the only land at all. It was not part of a chain or the very tip of some underwater range. No, Fonteyn was a floating, ...

Chapter 1 “Peculiar” Max thought the shake he felt was occurring in his dream. Then, when the ground beneath him shook again, he awoke with a startle. Impossible he thought; nothing could shake the island. Getting up, he glanced out his window. Fonteyn, the name of the city as well as the island, was intact. How? He wondered. Fonteyn wasn’t just an island. It was the only island, the only land at all. It was not part of a chain or the very tip of some underwater range. No, Fonteyn was a float...

Chapter 1 “Peculiar” At first, Max thought the shake he’d felt was occurring in his dream, in his head. Then, when the ground beneath him shook again, he awoke with a startle. Impossible he thought; nothing could shake the island. Getting up, he glanced out his window. Fonteyn, the name of the city as well as the island, was intact. How? He wondered. Fonteyn wasn’t just an island. It was the only island, the only land at all. It was not part of a chain or the very tip of some underwater range...

Chapter 1 I fear death. In my head this is my life's greatest truth. My conscience knows that I do not fear my own. No, I do not fear what death can bring to me. I fear the pain suffering of others. It was during the summer about six years ago. I was walking through the city the day it happened. A man, some twenty stories up, fell from a window. I saw him falling. As he fell, my vision began to blur. I fell to the ground, my eyes somehow locked on the blur speeding towards the ground. Then, w...