Night Vision from World Earth

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A young woman pursues her father's strange captors after he buys a pair of fake night vision goggles.
First 10 Pages

After buying fake night vision goggles worth $10,000, Anette Leavitt’s Father, Lee Watsly, takes off in her Cessna 206 and mysteriously vanishes. She soon learns that Lee paid a heavy price for her secret he found. Her husband, Jean Leavitt, had cheated on her and Lee had caught him in the act. What Anette doesn’t understand is how he killed Lee the night before he took off in the Cessna. How had he walked out of her front door the night the cops brought Jean home? Was she imagining things or did something strange happen? Leaning on a hunch, Anette follows his trail, finding her crashed Jeep where Lee had died and soon she learns what brought him back to life, Skinwalkers. They have returned to the crashed jeep in search of the same night vision goggles her father had bought. But why? She has no choice but to escape them and save her father from the Skinwalkers, no matter the cost. Even if it means losing the respect of her fellow Blue Angels and the military. The night vision goggles take her on a fascinating journey through other worlds where time is much different, and each place is much stranger than the last. Upon entering her last world, she finds the Cessna and a rather calm Lee out in the middle of a large and hot desert. Cautiously she sits with him, confiding in him and her goals to find him. But the Lee Watsly she finds isn’t the same Lee Watsly she knew. He is now a Skinwalker and is the son of the one that brought her father back to life. The pair of Skinwalkers attempt to kill her and send her to the grave just like her father, but the Skinwalker son betrays his father knowing Lee well. He rescues Anette and gives her time to escape in her own jet only when she finds that she’s lost the night vision goggles. Low on fuel, she is now stuck between worlds, calling for help.

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David Townsend Fri, 04/08/2023 - 14:33

I think this is a good premise; that a pair of goggles in our world can see into another. My interest was sparked a few pages in when Anaba put on the googles - I can see that happening on screen.

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