As the
story unfolds the increasing size of something or less extensive than it first
appears is one tension technique. The
following example is an excerpt from my latest Thriller book.
On
one of the turns she happened to glance up above the
tree
line. In the sky there was a white disc object; red fiery
hollow
rings started to come from it. Actually it seemed they
were
coming closer, and were growing larger the closer they
got
to her.
She
turned a corner and the disc was covered by a mountain
ridge.
That’s better she thought, I’ll bet Jay has never seen anything
like
that. Wait until I tell him about it, I know he’s into
physics.
What fun he’ll be so excited to know what is flying
just
north of his city. She took another drink of white chocolate
mocha
coffee.
Anna
drove many miles as the curved highway 101 followed
the
coastline. She rounded a curve to find herself in the strange
swirls
of a misty fog bank. She saw light blue areas in the white
fog.
Farther into the fog she slowed her car down.
Small
water droplets began hitting her windshield from
the
thick fog. She could see the fog droplets were rotating
in
a light blue glow as they generated in mid-air just in front
of
her car. The droplets were spiral spreading outward and
became
smaller.
Anna
realized her simple drive south had become a
white
knuckle ride to stay on the highway, in almost stop
driving
conditions.
Slow
driving through the strange thick fog for over an hour,
brought her out into a thin mist that sparkled with gold
sun
streaks.
Anna felt a sweep of relief; finally she had navigated
out
of the strange fog.
Somehow
the air had changed from moist and cold to heat
with
no transition. She turned her heater off while the outside
air
heat increased reminding her of a desert in summer.
Ahead
above the highway the sky looked anything but
normal.
Earths blue sky had a green sparkle that swept over
and
showered down through it.
Anna
decided earth must have taken a near direct hit from a
gigantic
solar flare. Even her cars radio had news stations that
were
talking about the sun’s increased solar activity.
She
hoped the high temperatures would return to normal
soon.
The crescent shape flare rapidly swept in a point toward
the
west, its heat effect and sparkling green had disappeared.
Anna
didn’t expect the drive from Coos Bay, Oregon to
Crescent
City, California to be unpleasant. She hadn’t realized
the
weather would transform her trip into a terrifying series
of
events.
Driving
time passed quietly with nothing more out of the
ordinary.
She was almost alone on the highway; she noticed
that
few cars had driven past her. She turned the heater on
again;
the open ocean air once again was still cool in the
late spring.
My Thriller book: Secret Terror In Wavelengths, has a Techno element. If interested it can be found on http://www.amazon.com/Janett-Lee-Wawrzyniak/e/B005K55SMK and purchased or ordered from over 25,000 booksellers worldwide.
