Stranded Pixels of Us
Set in two worlds, Earth in 2022 and an enigmatic Fantasy world with a location unknown to mortals, Stranded Pixels of Us is a symphony of teen romance and mind-blowing fantasy that describes time as a where rather than a when.
Drake, the main character is an alien from the world of Time who is sent to Earth as a child to protect him from the evil incarnate, Prargrus.
After 17 plus years on Earth, Drake had lived a normal nerdy life with his aged adopted parents ignorant of his power or who he was.
His powers begin to unfold in the company of the girl he loves, Alessia, who finds him to be interesting and his powers to be intriguing. Together, they realise all that he is and how his powers were to save his world and hers.
Facing enemies was one thing, losing themselves to time's glitch was another and Drake embarks on a mission to save Alessia from whichever year in time that she was while discovering more about his powers and the greater threat to humanity along the line.
In the end, Drake faces his fears and unleashes his power to annihilate Prargrus and his allies for good and he reunites with Alessia after he finds his way out of the time labyrinth he got lost in. The book gives the reader a thousand reasons to believe in love, choices and the power of time.
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Chapter: The Future is a PrankDrake woke up from his bed with a smile on his rough face as he looked like he slept quite soundly. He stared at the Ying Yang necklace that he held on to all night and his smile became wider. It was evident that he hadn't recovered from the shock of yesterday. As usual, he ran to the bathroom and had a bath, more of a happy one than a relief this time. The vibes he showcased in his every action expressed the feelings going on in his brain. He wore a brown long-sleeved turtleneck shirt on his white jean and a fit black sneaker. He hadn't dressed this superb in a long time and he was proud he did. After some minutes of this dressing, he made his way downstairs radiating those good emotions and ran into grandma who was sitting on the couch just facing the staircase. She was awe-struck as her words suddenly gasped in exhilaration. She knew something was up and whatever it was really made her smile. Her words seemed to have gotten a life of theirs as she said, "God! This drip
Last Updated: 2022-08-06
Chapter: Falling into PlaceMany thoughts now found their way into his head space as he anxiously removed the loose threads and tore right through the leather. To his surprise and ecstatic amazement, he pulled the book right out of the chair. "You always were so clever, Hoder", he said to himself as he chuckled lightly with the book in his right hand.The book was big and housed a large number of old brown printed papers with a purple cover and a hand-drawn font. He hid the book in his rough leather bag which was on his waist and attached to a rope on his shoulders and he left the office stealthily. The old man found his way to the citadel in search of Xalia, the midwife who was given the responsibility of sending Reikus' child to the other world. He went to the hospital where she worked as he was instructed to and talked to her privately. "Hoder sent me to you. He asked me to give you this.." Riven, the old man said as he brought out the book and handed it to Xalia. Xalia wore a look of awe as she look
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Chapter: How costly is Immortality?"You know, I get them too. Those nightmares, the scary ones that keep haunting me…" She said plainly to Drake who was both surprised and happy that she somehow figured it out without him uttering a word. "So, what do you do?" Drake asked. "I survive. Some nights are just worse than the others. I try my best to take my mind off them and most times, I get stuck in a distraction." She replied. "A distraction?" Drake said softly as he remembered hearing that before. "I think that food has been patient enough, you might want to have it now" Alessia said as she chuckled lightly. Drake smiled and laughed slowly as he looked at her. She was gorgeous, brilliant and funny and here she was, right in front of him. Drake picked up a spoon of his salad and ate it slowly as he looked at her frequently. Back in the other world, Thaxis, the man who helped Prargrus escape the prison earlier stood in the delivery room beside Reikus who just had a child. He collected the baby withou
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Chapter: See You Around"That is quite something. I doubt if I'd have had enough air to breathe in considering all the spree of words and all." Drake smiled and Alessia slightly chuckled too. "It's puzzling that we meet people around the same age and yet we are million light years apart in our view of the world." Drake said with a rather philosophical look which Alessia seemed to enjoy. Her phone rang and it was her mum, so she picked anxiously. "Baby, I'm here already. Sorry for keeping you waiting" Her mum said honestly. "It's okay. I will be there in a minute" Alessia said with a smile on her cheeks. "My mum is here already. See you around?" "Yeah. Bye" Drake replied with a warm look. He stayed there trying to embrace the air, all of it in that moment as she left through the door. Thoughts decided to flood his head space to give him unsolicited company and he let out a brief smile. He picked up his bag and left the building too with his earpiece in his ear, playing nothing but list
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Chapter: Vulnerability Sprouts "That was an amazing short and I'm impressed already", the voice of a woman who wasn't Mrs Jessica rung in his ears. He looked towards the speaker and it was Alessia. He was so lost in his thoughts as his day could not have gone any weirder. Alessia noticed the shock on his face and bent down to pick his ball from the floor as it rolled away. She threw it to him, but a twist of events found the ball right on his head. It was quite a surprise Drake didn't fall right to the ground stone cold as the ball met his head which was probably steaming due to overthinking. "Oh My God! I'm so sorry…", Alessia said sincerely and with an awkward look on her face. "Ha ha", Drake chuckled. The ball really must have hit him pretty bad at some delicate spots for him to be laughing at such pain. Alessia walked up to him and touched his face. Once again, this very moment, time seemed to slow down, but it didn't really. "It does hurt much, doesn't it?, Alessia asked as she rubbed bot
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Chapter: Hallucination in broad daylightDrake was weak and fell right on the toilet's seat like paper being flung into open space. Right before they started to throw their boldly designed fists on to his body, he felt something as he shut his eyes anticipating the incoming pain. He felt silence, yet noise. He felt some kind of heat flashing right before his face and now he opened his eyes. Drake was in his bed, in his room. He was back to hours before the toilet scene happened. He was speechless, confused and his brain just kept making up a million stories with less than a hundred proofs. "It must have been a concussion. I must have been punched badly on the head", he said to himself as he put his two hands on his face as he felt pain fixed on it. "I knew it, I was hit in the face, but how come that's all I remember?", he asked himself with an unfamiliar puzzled look on his face. As if this version of a quagmire wasn't hefty enough, he glanced at his room and saw scenes of movement; every move he had made, ever
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Chapter: Illusions kiss RealityThere was no anomaly with the timejumping this time as Michaela took her time to cry without the bother of what came next."C'mon! Let's get out of here now." Michael said to his sister who had cried her eyes out and was wiping them off already. She really needed those cathartic tears and she slowly got up with her hands in her brother's as they retreated to take cover. Before they could get to the concrete where they'd formerly taken cover, they time-jumped. This was a different experience in more ways than one. They arrived here in a change of clothes in what seemed like biological hazard prevention suits; an upgrade to the regular hazmat suits they'd known.Something rained from the sky and danced off from their helmets to the ground. It wasn't rain, it was lighter and appeared to be dustier. After a few seconds of fixed analysis, Michael realised that this was ash. It was raining ashes in the city of Pretoria, South Africa."What year are we in again?" Michael asked while tryin
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Chapter: Trauma Resurfaces when Control SlipsAs Michaela turned back to see the person behind her, she time-jumped again and landed beside what seemed like a mega-Holographic edifice that projected Greece as it was or closely looked like in the Ancient Civilisation of the 5th and 6th Century B.C This was beautiful and it wasn't nature, it was technology beyond her time and she was stunned. Next to her was her brother, Michael, who looked very healthy and fit with eye-soothing muscles. Michaela took in this view in silence and unintentionally gulped whatever saliva was gushing over her brother's hotness and she gave him the biggest hug she could and anyone around could sense love between these two. "Is this…?" Michael started but was interrupted by his overly surprised sister. "Yeah, nanotech, and it's Greece" she said barely catching up with her breath as she stood in awe. "How many more jumps do we have there?" Michael asked curiously. "Six. We have six more. It's just that I don't know how to get us to go anywhere. It ove
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Chapter: The Future Happened in 2022It was June 2022 and 22 year old twins, Michaela and Michael were back in Locatelli, a scantily-populated area in Sweden. They had recently concluded their Master's at MIT and were back, on to the project that had come to define their lives. Their late dad's hedge fund money had long been the basis of their fund-demanding research and experiments. Michaela was the more brilliant of the twins but she was the more skeptical one who wasn't keen on heavy risks unlike her brother who had coronary artery disease and had been diagnosed as terminal about 9 months back. "I think we're done. I sincerely have a good feeling about this one, Michael." Michaela said to the sleeping Michael who had passed out from overnight stress on the couch few feet away from the lab entrance. This was no ordinary lab, and the only comparison that came close in terms of facilities and multimillion dollar physics equipment in this place was Tony's Stark Labs. Despite the weakness in his body, Michael dragged
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Chapter: The World would hurt Itself"The planet is a ball after all, and a rolling one at that. What were we expecting anyway? It's all in motion already." A flier containing these words flew right into the face of Moritz, a German tourist in Japan.Moritz removed it from this face as the wind's pressure was making it slightly difficult.Japan was never on Moritz's travel destinations, but the world was a little beyond normal already. It was 2053 and the World War III had recently ended.About 7 months ago, Moritz was Cruising in the Ocean in a country that was once known as Nigeria. He heard so much about regaining clarity from spending time at this part of the world.Moritz was a 49 year old journalist and he used to be one of the world's best but he wasn't that person anymore, not after he'd lost his daughter and wife to the war while we went off to fight under forceful recruitment circumstances back home in Germany.This was one of those few wars that was in the end, foolish and damning to man's existence as there w
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Chapter: A mere glitch?It was a beautiful sunset scene as Brad walked into the Devitton Bar section of the club where he had one shot of his favourite drink- MacAnthony's Gin and Tonic. He sighed right after and dropped the cup silently as he got up to head to the top of the building; the night club's dancefloor.Brad was a real life 20 year old loser who couldn't leave the safety of his own house. He owed all the fun and sexual action in his life to this virtual reality that had become his reality.Brad owned the latest of all gadgets. How else could he have been satisfied with being Google's VR Pixel's Innovative Director?Brad had too many flaws, but his biggest of all was his indifference towards anything and everything that was outside of what he knew to be reality."Buzz!Buzz!!" Brad's Hologram device that was placed at the right end of his table buzzed repeatedly."What now?" Brad said with disgust and slight vexation as he paused his virtual reality game or life as it had come to be for him and str
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Chapter: The Cosmic Climax"Half the world is foolish. The other half is too high to know the difference" Travis said as he smiled flirtatiously. He was a charmer with a lethal smile and a packet of words that sounded like poetry."You ever wonder if life was better in the past than now?" Margot asked in a rather philosophical tone."I can't say. Cosmically, we all meet one end" Travis continued as he popped out a purple pill into his soft comely white palms."And what's that?" Margot asked curiously."We all fucking die. Some lived, some stayed, some held life right at the balls. That last one's my cosmic climax" Travis said in a lower pitched voice now with an almost high face.Margot didn't need a prophet or love algorithm to tell her that this was her 'own person'.Margot sniffled again as she remembered these Memories vividly. AVID+ was not a regular drug. It recreated memories as they happened and this was a blessing and curse for the grieving Margot.She headed to the desk that looked more like a shit sh
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