He
turned back to the apple and tried to shift the focus of his thoughts
to mimic how he had felt. He thought about the apple the same way he
thought about his arm, or his toes. He wiggled his toes and moved his
arm up and down and tried to capture the sort of sensation it gave him
to know that these parts of his body were under his control. He looked
at the apple and tried to imagine how it would feel for the apple to be
part of his body. He commanded the apple, as part of his body, to roll
off the stump to the left.
Neil’s eyes tracked the movement immediately.
The apple rolled off the stump. He watched it fall to the ground almost in slow motion.
“YES!” He exclaimed, “FUCK YES, I DID IT!!”
Neil
felt the rush of excitement. His heart started beating faster and he
got a sudden burst of energy…until he felt the breeze. The damn wind
had blown it off. His mood sank almost as quickly as it rose. He
picked up a stick, threw it at the can, missed, and sat down on the
ground, defeated.
Neil
tried for another 20 or 30 minutes in an attempt to make
something…anything happen to the apple and the can, but nothing worked.
He decided he was tired of wasting his time looking foolish and walked
over to the stumps to retrieve his produce, feeling embarrassed.
As
Neil was walking towards the apple, he felt a tickling sensation on his
cheek and heard a buzzing noise. It took a split second for him to
realize that a bug had landed on his face, and a split second longer for
him to raise his hand to try to swat it off.
He
was too late. He felt the sharp pinch and realized that the bug was a
bee, and his cheek was throbbing with pain. His temper immediately
flared from the sudden sting. He knew he needed to swat off and kill
the damned bee, so that’s what he did. Instead of raising his arm to do
it, he reflexively used the other part of his body – the new part of
his body that he hadn’t used before – the red spherical part of his body
that he sensed had untapped potential that could be used in this very
situation to kill a bee.
Before
he realized what he was doing, he felt a baseball sized object smack
into the side of his face, explode into tiny juicy pieces, and knock him
to the ground. He laid in the dirt and leaves, staring up at the sky.
He tasted something on the corner of his mouth. It tasted sweet, and
then it dawned on him what it was that hit him in the side of the head.
He had just killed the bee with an apple.
Superhuman
Nature is Brandon Overall’s first novel. It was written and published
during his first deployment to Afghanistan as a 2nd Lieutenant in late
2013.
Neil
Hitchens was a senior ROTC Cadet in college. He was just weeks away
from graduating and becoming an Officer in the United States Army, until
a strange dream set off a chain of events that would twist his life
into something he could have never prepared for.
In
the days following his dream, several strange happenings occurred that
he began to suspect were the result of his own actions. Before long, he
discovered that he had the ability to control the world around him with
his mind.
What
started out as an unpredictable ability quickly evolved into an
extraordinary power that had the capacity to change the world. It didn’t
take long for the government to find out what Neil could do.
They
knew having such limitless potential on the side of the US Military
could give them limitless political influence, and they would stop at
nothing to get Neil to do their bidding. They would find out what
happens when you back a dangerous animal into a corner.
Neil
spent his whole life believing he would amount to greatness, but he
never expected how greatness could corrupt even the most innocent of
minds.
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Genre – Science Fiction
Rating – PG-13
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