Hello
fellow Warriors (and Snippeteers)! Happy Independence Day weekend if you are in the USA. Happy Canada Day weekend to our Canadian author friends.
It's time for snips and bits of amazing tales by talented
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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". Lily, abducted from Earth by alien slavers, is following Theusand--he's a different kind of alien. 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. The last lines last week were spoken by Lily: "So, tell me--in case I missed it--why do I care about these people? About any of this?”
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 following Theusand--he's a different kind of alien. 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. The last lines last week were spoken by Lily: "So, tell me--in case I missed it--why do I care about these people? About any of this?”
Here we go...
He closed his eyes. No sound came when his lips moved. Was he counting? His voice was
soft...too soft when he finally spoke. “Humans assimilate information differently than Dhors,
Chays, or even the lowly Bulragers."
Her fists relaxed, opening, and the tightness in her jaw released.
"There are many, many species among the
stars, countless, perhaps, but your kind is unique in myriad ways; not all of
them are beneficial." His words dripped with sweetness.
The fight inside her that had boiled to the surface mere moments before vanished. But a little voice at the edge of her thoughts warned her she was every bit as mesmerized as he'd intended.
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