Chapter Twenty
Apocalypse
Excerpt from the novel Meltdown ©1998
‘Sweet’ Melyssa was highly pissed off. Angered in the extreme. That was the only reason she needed, at first. The bizarre scene that followed, full of strange intimations and future connotations, would be better understood later. But for the time being she was just overwhelmed with anger. Pure, unadulterated anger.
Of course, there was a volatile stew of other emotions also churning inside her: a veritable witch’s brew of dark, primitive impulses surging forth from her ancient reptile brain. These were scary, exciting, and enraging all by turns, and she couldn’t have sorted them out right now, separated them one from another if she’d wanted to. And she definitely didn’t want to. None of them really mattered except the ange
