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The Awakening

Jack Sharkey

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . class="figcenter"> THE AWAKENING

BY JACK SHARKEY

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Galaxy Magazine February 1964.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

They awoke after ages of hiding—to emerge into
a world richer than they had dared to dream of!

Rik's first impressions were an uncomfortable chill creeping along his bare flesh, and a bright milky swirling of light that encompassed his entire vision. He shivered and blinked his eyes a few times, and then the swirling settled down and became the vault. The chill, he realized, was due to the body warmth being methodically sucked away by the cold slab on which he lay. Another shiver brought a gasp of breath into his lungs, and then he was wide awake.

When he sat up and swung his legs over the side, the interior of the vault began. . . Read More