1000 Hours Outside Book Novels & Stories

"I ran this morning. Six miles. The perimeter is secure. The cardiovascular system is efficient." "Read a book." "I finished the books," Cale said. "All of them. The shelf is depleted." Elion looked at the bookshelf in the living room. There were at least fifty books there. "You read War and Peace?" "Yes. It was... long. The military strategy was flawed." "Of course it was." Elion sighed. He stood up, swaying slightly. "You need a hobby," Elion said. "Or a job." "A job," Cale repeated. "Employment. Exchange of labor for currency."

He worked until at least midnight every night but he was always up before me in the morning which meant he was sleeping maybe five hours and doing it consistently enough that it was clearly just how he operated. He read physical books. Not many people did that anymore. He had three going at any one time, all of them left open face down in different rooms of the penthouse the way you do when you are reading in fragments between other things. I had looked at the spines without meaning to. History mostly. One biography. Nothing that wasn't true.

I murmured to myself, as I had been doing for the past two hours, "Take a deep breath, take a deep breath Jaidyn. This is not real at all." I'm not sure how much time has gone, but I was on the verge of removing every book written in Greek from the last shelf. And it describes and offers the same information over and over again. A piece of information I refused to accept. Because it's not true. Exactly what I had spent hours repeating to myself.

I answered the questions easily and did my math by answering the problems first and then making the equation match the answers. When I finished, the sun was going down. I drank from my water bottle and contemplated sleeping up here and returning to my room early in the morning. Isabella wouldn’t care and probably wouldn’t notice my absence. I had just downloaded a book I wanted to read by Kevin Mitnick. It was called Ghost in the Wires and was about his hacking and being on the FBI’s most wanted list. I kicked back again and got comfortable. I read for three hours and it was the chill that made me pack my things to head back to the room. I needed my beauty sleep and if Isabella’s crew was st

She said, standing up my eyes wide too shocked to even utter a single word as I looked at the books under the desk that she was talking about. Each book was like a bible, probably having more than a thousand pages and I had to read twenty of them in twenty-four hours. My head was already throbbing as Elizabeth closed the door behind her, my body slumping against the chair, all the excitement of working gone leaving nothing but dread. I picked up the first book, it being so heavy it felt like my arm would fall off. My hand turned the thick leather page, flipping through the pages.

00 at night, I still have an hour to read this book. “I'm sorry, madam, it's only 09.00 at night, isn't bedtime every 10.00 at night? If I still have an hour and I can't sleep well, that's why I come here to just read a book to relieve boredom. Once again I'm sorry, if I have indeed violated a rule, please don't punish me with severe punishment."

I sat in my library, going through some books, since it was my leisure time. I had a lot of things going through my thoughts, and the only way to free myself from such thoughts is when I keep myself busy reading a book. I had been in the library for more than five hours now and my back was beginning to hurt. I peered down at my wristwatch, and it was 9pm already. I stretched my long legs which I had folded for hours now. Maybe going for a run will do justice to my aching legs.

"I usually go to all of them." Silence I glance up and find them staring at me like I’ve just admitted to running marathons in my sleep. "But… that’s like…" Zach starts counting on his fingers, his eyebrows knitting together. "That’s 24 hours a week… how the hell do you manage all that?" "Actually, I train for about 37 hours and 45 minutes." The words slip out before I can stop them. Dammit. I nearly groan out loud. My stupid brain just couldn’t resist showing off. Of course, I had to say the exact number.

After Jared got discharged, Daphne said she needed a break and asked Pierce to take her and Jared on a beach trip. The three of them booked the first flight out and headed straight to an island resort overseas, staying there for over two weeks. Pierce lay back on a beach chair, staring at the waves, distracted. Lucia and Ellie kept creeping into his head. He unlocked his phone over and over. Still nothing. No texts. No missed calls. The silence felt wrong.

-Week 13~ day 7, 500 hours. I haven't got any sleep for the past 35 hours. having to find our way back to base, after out transportation got eliminated. Then I remembered Kota, and that she would tell me to suck it up and keep going. That my life is more important than sleep, and so are my comrades around me. -Week 14~ day 2, 700 hours.