HYPO: Exordium (HYPO, Book 1) by D.L. Jones

Release date: September 14, 2018

Subgenre: Superhero serial

About HYPO: Exordium: 

 

Chauncy and Tre were childhood friends. Tre, who works for a pharmaceutical company, is in town on business. Chauncy hadn’t seen Tre since college and decides they should catch up. After picking Tre up from the airport, they are ambushed and kidnapped. Held hostage in an old abandoned house. With hopes of escape, Tre and Chauncy use an experimental drug from Tre’s company that gives them extraordinary physical abilities.

This will be the first book in the Hypo Series, Hypo: Exordium. It is a Serial Short. There are 3 parts of an ongoing story. The second part will be released October 1, and the final part soon after!

 

Excerpt:

 

This morning, Chauncy didn’t just show up early because he had a boost of motivation. Someone called him in. Not by an employee or a customer, but the police. What awaits him was very disappointing. He put his whole life’s work into this store and it has done well for him. He lives a comfortable life with all the life lavishes that goes along with the fantasy of being a business owner. What he saw as he pulled up and got out of his car left him distraught.

The front window of the store is shattered. There’s a cinder block sitting on the floor, just inside the store. That cinder block was used to break the window and gain entry. Someone robbed the HD shop. Shattered glass covers the floor around the cinder block. A closed sign is hanging on its frame but still lit.

Through the broken storefront window, the view inside shows that there were no damaged items, but clearly missing items. Someone moved the display of the new large panel TVs around with several missing. Movie players and computers were missing from the shelves. Even cables and universal remotes were missing. The thieves had their pick of items and meticulously grabbed things they wanted and all the accessories that went with those things.

“It was like they had all night.” Chauncy thought to himself.

He also thought about how it looked like the thieves had a plan and a layout of the store.

“Could be an inside job, but anyone can walk in a few times and get a layout of the store.” Chauncy thought again.

A few Workers had surveyed the damage. A replacement window pane was staged nearby ready to install and replace the damaged one. Chauncy walked through the HD shop to the back of the store, to his office.

The back office of the HD shop is lush with an oversized leather couch. On the other side of the room sits a large mahogany executive style desk. The highest end personal computer is sitting on the desk. Mounted on the wall on the other side of the room were several surveillance monitors. Chauncy stood in his lush office and looked around. He looked at his computer for a few minutes then looked over at his surveillance monitors. Shaking his head, he tapped away at the keyboard on his desk while guiding his mouse around.

2 Police officers were already in Chauncy’s office waiting for him to come in. Chauncy didn’t acknowledged them. He walked past them as he came in as if they weren’t there. Officer Ryan, a 47-year-old black man was writing notes on his notepad while Officer Ford stood, impatiently, waiting for Chauncy to address her. Officer Ford was a 38-year-old white woman.

Chauncy types more on his computer and seems to grow with anger as he typed. He kept looking at the monitors. He would get writhe with anger at moments but kept a somewhat cool composure.

 

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About D.L. Jones:

DL Jones was born in Brooklyn NY, grew up in Newport News VA and has spent the last 8 years in Charlotte NC. He has served time in the US Army and works as an IT Professional. His first love has always been tech, well computers and the web specifically, which has led to a lot of writing. He has had several websites/blogs and podcast over the years.

He started writing his first novel in 1998. There was no such thing as self-publishing as it is today. He had no end game, it was a hobby. He wrote on it for several years until a mishap caused him to lose the whole thing. It was a whole glass of soda and laptop issue, with no backups.  Currently he has 4 novels in the works and the 3 HYPO shorts. 2 of his novels are fiction with HYPO being sci-fi, and his upcoming novel, Billette Hall, being a Horror/Thriller based in American slavery times. A third novel in the works, I Used to be FAT, is non-fiction, based on his life before and after 150lb weight loss. The last novel in the works is also non-fiction. 

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