Author Christy Schmidt invites readers to her Patreon page to discover serialized books, advance access to unpublished books, short stories, and experimental material. Patrons enjoy exciting rewards including autographed hard copies, letters from characters, and interaction with the author. This month her unreleased title, THAT FALL, is serialized and ready for you to read.
The day mysterious sonic booms and hovering alien crafts alarm the world, professor Angie Krigare is committed to an institution where a fellow patient demands her release and provides an implausible explanation for her bizarre abilities: She is the leader of the peace-keeping force determined to prevent the annihilation of planet Earth.
Accomplished history professor and yoga enthusiast Angie Krigare lives alone with her cat. The day the inexplicable sonic booms shake Earth, Angie, exhibiting deadly powers, is plagued with terrifying memories of the kidnapping of a son she does not have. The staff of Longwood Mental Institution, wary she may kill again, struggle to understand Angie’s inconceivable medical profile and to keep the staff and other patients safe until the FBI retrieves her. The patient in room thirty-six, with his own inexplicable abilities, offers an implausible explanation: Immortal Angie must regain her memory before those claiming to be from the government offer her, and the Earth, a less attractive alternative. The impossible surrounds us.
