The Invasion

By Joseph Sweet

An overnight takeover leaves friends Bill, Fran and Jack stranded, and perhaps alone on a hostile alien world they once called home. Will they be able to fight back and save their planet from this new power, or succumb to the alien rule?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joseph Sweet
• Release date: May 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301751440

Joseph Sweet

Joseph Sweet was born October 31 1976, and has been writing seriously since the age of sixteen. He currently lives in the upstate NY community of Watertown. Aside from writing he plays guitar and keyboard, writes and sings his own songs, and is an amateur photographer. He has worked in Television and radio doing voices and making and editing commercials, played in several bands, and acted in theater, but his greatest passion is and always has been his writing.

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The Invasion

By Joseph Sweet

Story, Cover art, and illustrations by Joseph P. Sweet.

Copyright © 2006-2012, Forsaken Press and Joseph P. Sweet. All rights reserved.

The Invasion First appeared in 2006, as a novella. It also appeared in the short story and novella collection, Hell 101

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For Vince, Bill, Wendy, Kris & Stacey, Lori, Claudia, my sister Brittany, and all others who have been a positive influence on me and my creative endeavors.

Other titles by Joseph Sweet

Fiction:

The Damnation

Chronicles:

Book One: The Damned

Book Two: Redemption

Book Three: The Gathering

Book Four: The Harbingers

Last Days:

Book One: Requiem for Humanity

Book Two: Endangered Species

Novellas:

The Invasion

I am the Life

Collections:

Hell 101

The Fall

The Edge

Coming Soon

Short stories:

A Road through Hell

Artificial Redemption

A Storm of Light

Crash Landing

Darkness, Born

Deadly Memory

Death in the Storm

Escape to Mars

Feeding Time

Forsaken

Hell 101

Just Like Going to Sleep

Last Train

One Last Goodbye

Plague

Scavengers

The Awakening

The Edge

The Future?

The Drawer

The Fall

The Last Day

The Stalker

Wendigo

Yes there will be blood

Contents:

Copyright

The Invasion

Bio

The Invasion

I

8:45 P. M.

Fran and Bill sat on the back porch of his summer home in Sackets Harbor, New York - Fran on Bill’s lap - holding each other and listening to the sounds of nature all around them.

This is how it should be, he thought as he looked across the large span of property, past the cliffs, over the lake; the woods surrounded them on all other sides.

It was peaceful here, just the two of them.

Then as though on cue, a low sickly moan startled him and he recalled that Jack had passed out earlier in the living room.

Jack had been his friend since college, which was not all that far behind him. He’d been practically surgically attached to his side ever since though. At times he loved the guy like a brother, but at others, he wished that he would find some other friends or develop a hobby or something. A few days alone with Fran would be like a dream vacation out here. But what could he say?

I’d have done better not to remember he was here, he thought and squeezed Fran playfully to take his mind off the subject.

She stirred and got up.

Be right back, hon.

Bill sighed, the moment over. The cold of the night air immediately replaced the warmth of her