The Loze
an excerpt

“Of course, if you decide not to join us, we'll just have to kill you.”
Addie looked up. What?
“Yep. We haven't hardly told you anything and you still know too much to get away free. Your future, Addie, contains death. But you have a choice between two. Either we all three jump off of the bridge together, each touching the metal ball, or we shove you off of the bridge right now, no ball in hand. You either fall into the unknown or take a chance on two strangers. It's not a difficult decision really. It wasn't for me, at least....”
“So if I go with you,” Addie said, her face pale and her hands shaking, “I won't really die? Or I will die, but be somehow alright?”
“Yes, yes you die. And yes, you'll be alright. It'll all work out in the end, I suppose.”
“I really don't have a choice, then.”
“Not a hard one, personally.”
Addie held the ball out to them; it was still in her hand. But it wasn't for them to take. It was so that they could touch it too. The men smiled.
“Alright, Addie Traub!”
Together, the two mysterious men and the teenage girl stepped on top of the bridge railing, all holding the equally mysterious metal ball. And with Addie's one last thought of intense confusion, they jumped off.
And then it was cold.
And then it was warm.
And then Addie was thrown to the ground in a dark room.
She had absolutely no clue what had just happened.