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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Weekend Writing Warriors July 29, 2018


Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors!

It's time for snips and bits of amazing tales by talented writers! Weekend Writing Warriors is a weekly bloghop. Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, on their own blog to go live by 9:00 AM Sunday, EST. Then we visit each other and read, comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good. 
             Snippet Sunday group from facebook--not us, but many of our participants do both, can be found HERE
            This week's snippet is from "The Sands of Dhor".  Lily, abducted from Earth by alien slavers, is with Theusand (not a slaver--an apparent rescuer) has just told her that Earth was destroyed and her husband and children are dead.    
          This week's snippet picks up directly from last week's--which ended with:  Her goal to get back home was all she'd been clinging to since the filthy slavers grabbed her and dragged her off into space. Her reaction continues this week:
 
God above, it hurt like nothing else in her life ever had. If she could find a way outside the ship, she’d do it--step out there among the stars, minus any protective suit, and the universe could have her.
 Strong hands gathered her up and held her. She didn’t have the strength to push him away. She didn’t even try to close her mind to him.  What did it matter? He was welcome to her anguish. She cried until she had nothing left.  She'd found the end.
Then, in the way of the universe that few accept until it is thrust in front of them, she discovered that the end is merely a place where the new beginning starts.

That closes this chapter of the book.
  That's it for this week.  All opinions greatly appreciated. :-) Thank you so much for visiting and for commenting!

18 comments:

  1. A very sad ending of this chapter, but the new beginnings part definitely makes me want to keep reading.

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  2. Sad, yet true. Life goes on in spite of tragedy.

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  3. Wow, Teresa! Intense and tragic and aching with her pain. I hope he can help her find relief (in whatever manner he can).

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  4. This is so heartbreaking, she has gone through so much. Great writing!

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  5. Once again you've touch my heart, Teresa. True to life, when there's grief, in order to survive one must move on. Survive and thrive is my motto. Easy to say; difficult to do.

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  6. Beautifully profound and touching.

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  7. You’ve conveyed her grief so well. And that last sentence is very true!

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  8. Great writing, and I love the last line.

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  9. Atta girl, Lily! Stay positive!

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  10. Very emotional snippet. Makes me feel sad, though that last line leaves me hopeful.

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  11. So heart wrenching. I love the last line also.

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  12. That last sentence is so profound - and so true. Very poignant snippet - her grief comes through so clearly.

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  13. Oh, wow. What an ending. Heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time.

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  14. A deeply touching moment. I'm wondering of Thousand had something to do with her seeing beyond her grief.

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    1. Darn autocorrect. I know it's Theusand, not thousand!

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