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 Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, on their own blog to go live by before 9:00 AM Sunday, EST. (We check signups to remove links when we don't find a wewriwa post--to save our participants from clicking on empty links--so please have it live by 9:00 Sunday morning--eastern USA. Then we visit each other and read, comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good.
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This week's snippet is from "The Sands of Dhor". I've skipped ahead a couple of paras. Lily, abducted from Earth by alien slavers, is following Theusand. He's not a slaver. He's Dhor'en; they communicate mind to mind.
They've left the section of the ship where he and his Chays (monks) are quartered. It's the first time she's left that deck since Lord Sand rescued her from the slave fight ring in the belly of the ship. Their conversation is stuck on Earth's college level health class. The first sentence this week is spoken by Theusand:
“Of course I do not, but perhaps you
needed to hear yourself say it. When your angry words fly, your mind loses any
sense of logic it may have had. Let me
begin again. I have studied your Health 101 memories.”
“For Christ’s sake, you’ve driven that
point home quite well. I know you know all about our freshman health class.”
He nodded at her. His words were full of
that oh-so-infuriating calm when he said, “I do, indeed. Do you recall learning about stasis?”
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