The Last Story Read Online Free
Author: Christopher Pike
Tags: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Authors, supernatural, Horror & Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Body; Mind & Spirit
Daniel, Kathy, and Mary.
They shove off in the lifeboat just as the mother sailboat goes under, but they do not head straight for shore.
Something is bothering Daniel.
"Bob has planned this so carefully," he says, "that he must know if even one of us survives, he will go to jail for the rest of his life. There must be another level to his revenge. He emphasized how we have a compass, plenty of gasoline. But I'm certain if we head straight for shore we won't make it. He'll be waiting for us somewhere between here and there, and he has a gun."
Daniel convinces the others that Bob must be just out of sight, watching them through binoculars to see what they're going to do. Daniel advises them to head away from shore. The girls immediately consent because what Daniel says makes sense. But Daniel knows the change in course will not solve their problems. When Bob sees what they're doing, he'll come after them.
For that reason, once they are clear of the school of sharks, Daniel has them cut speed while he hangs out of sight over the side of the lifeboat, in the water. Even though Bob must be watching them through binoculars, it will be hard for him to tell how many of them left the boat in the raft.
It is Daniel's intention to swim under both rafts when Bob appears and attack him from behind. It is their only hope, he says.
Daniel has analyzed the situation well. The girls are hardly a mile from the sunken sailboat when Bob roars into sight. He has the more powerful motor; he catches up to them quickly. While he toys with their minds, pointing his gun at their heads and quizzing them about how the others died, Daniel swims under the rafts. At the last second Bob guesses Daniel's plan and spins around, catching Daniel in the sights of his gun. To save her new love, and her own life, Kathy dives across the space that separates the two rafts. A struggle ensues and Kathy is shot in the shoulder. She sags over the side of Bob's lifeboat and her blood drips into the water.
Daniel does manage to climb back on board but is held at bay by Bob's gun. Daniel can only watch as Bob tries to shove the wounded Kathy into the water. But Bob makes the mistake of placing his own arm too close to Kathy's dripping blood, too close to the water. A shark rises from below and grabs hold of Bob's arm. Screaming, Bob begs Daniel to save him. Daniel, however, is not in the mood and he allows the shark to drag him under.
The evil villain reaps his just reward by becoming fish food.
The others head back to shore, Kathy recovering in her boyfriend's arms.
"I like it," I said to Jo when I finished rereading the summary. "But I don't love it."
Jo waved away my comment. "You're too close to it. You've been over the story too many times. It's great."
"It seems too simple to me."
"Most successful thrillers are. That's why they work. There's motive. There's a crime. The hero catches the bad guy. Everybody is happy." Jo glanced over at me. "You're not thinking of writing out my part, are you?"
Jo was to play Susie, the pain-in-the-ass cheerleader.
Jo could look as young as a high school kid.
Most of the cast were about twenty-one. I sat back and frowned.
"I often think I should be making another of my books into a movie," I said. "One of the spiritual ones."
"You can do that next. After you make twenty million on this one."
After splitting up the shares with the investors and Henry and our crazy director, I still owned a
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third of the film. If the movie did modestly well, I would make twenty million, what with domestic and video and foreign rights. I had already considered what Jo was saying. Make what would sell before making what I wanted. First to Die was a huge best-seller. More people associated it with my name than any other book. Yet the reasoning didn't satisfy me. I wanted to work on what was important to me now. Actually, I wanted to make Remember Me into a movie.
I suggested that to
They shove off in the lifeboat just as the mother sailboat goes under, but they do not head straight for shore.
Something is bothering Daniel.
"Bob has planned this so carefully," he says, "that he must know if even one of us survives, he will go to jail for the rest of his life. There must be another level to his revenge. He emphasized how we have a compass, plenty of gasoline. But I'm certain if we head straight for shore we won't make it. He'll be waiting for us somewhere between here and there, and he has a gun."
Daniel convinces the others that Bob must be just out of sight, watching them through binoculars to see what they're going to do. Daniel advises them to head away from shore. The girls immediately consent because what Daniel says makes sense. But Daniel knows the change in course will not solve their problems. When Bob sees what they're doing, he'll come after them.
For that reason, once they are clear of the school of sharks, Daniel has them cut speed while he hangs out of sight over the side of the lifeboat, in the water. Even though Bob must be watching them through binoculars, it will be hard for him to tell how many of them left the boat in the raft.
It is Daniel's intention to swim under both rafts when Bob appears and attack him from behind. It is their only hope, he says.
Daniel has analyzed the situation well. The girls are hardly a mile from the sunken sailboat when Bob roars into sight. He has the more powerful motor; he catches up to them quickly. While he toys with their minds, pointing his gun at their heads and quizzing them about how the others died, Daniel swims under the rafts. At the last second Bob guesses Daniel's plan and spins around, catching Daniel in the sights of his gun. To save her new love, and her own life, Kathy dives across the space that separates the two rafts. A struggle ensues and Kathy is shot in the shoulder. She sags over the side of Bob's lifeboat and her blood drips into the water.
Daniel does manage to climb back on board but is held at bay by Bob's gun. Daniel can only watch as Bob tries to shove the wounded Kathy into the water. But Bob makes the mistake of placing his own arm too close to Kathy's dripping blood, too close to the water. A shark rises from below and grabs hold of Bob's arm. Screaming, Bob begs Daniel to save him. Daniel, however, is not in the mood and he allows the shark to drag him under.
The evil villain reaps his just reward by becoming fish food.
The others head back to shore, Kathy recovering in her boyfriend's arms.
"I like it," I said to Jo when I finished rereading the summary. "But I don't love it."
Jo waved away my comment. "You're too close to it. You've been over the story too many times. It's great."
"It seems too simple to me."
"Most successful thrillers are. That's why they work. There's motive. There's a crime. The hero catches the bad guy. Everybody is happy." Jo glanced over at me. "You're not thinking of writing out my part, are you?"
Jo was to play Susie, the pain-in-the-ass cheerleader.
Jo could look as young as a high school kid.
Most of the cast were about twenty-one. I sat back and frowned.
"I often think I should be making another of my books into a movie," I said. "One of the spiritual ones."
"You can do that next. After you make twenty million on this one."
After splitting up the shares with the investors and Henry and our crazy director, I still owned a
REMEMBER ME 3: THE LAST STOKT
third of the film. If the movie did modestly well, I would make twenty million, what with domestic and video and foreign rights. I had already considered what Jo was saying. Make what would sell before making what I wanted. First to Die was a huge best-seller. More people associated it with my name than any other book. Yet the reasoning didn't satisfy me. I wanted to work on what was important to me now. Actually, I wanted to make Remember Me into a movie.
I suggested that to
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