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Sunday, June 25, 2017

Weekend Writing Warriors June 25, 2017

Hello fellow Warriors (and Snippeteers)!  The last wewriwa post of June! Time is truly flying by.


  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 Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, on their own blog to go live by before 9:00 AM Sunday, EST.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. 
  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 line last week was spoken by Theusand: "As I said, they are good people. They are—."  

Here we go...



“What are they?” she spat, giving him a dose of being cut off mid-sentence.
“If you would let me finish.”
“I don’t want to hear what they do or what they’re like. I am asking what they are, like I am a human and you’re a Dhor...so…what are they?”
She'd expected him to be angry at the way she'd intentionally disrespected him, but he sounded oddly detached when he said, “I understand your question now. They are  Shalks from the world of Shalkey, in the same space-time neighborhood as TeBrig.”  
“Right. So, tell me--in case I missed it--why do I care about these people? About any of this?”



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15 comments:

  1. He's being surprisingly nice about all this. Is that's what he's like as a person, or does he have some reason? You've got me wondering.

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  2. I'm very curious about these other beings, how they came to work with the alien slavers. Looking forward to reading this story all the way through. ;)

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  3. Go for it, Teresa. You have an interesting story here.

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  4. I'm surprised by his response. I too expected him to snap back at her. Nice snippet!

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  5. I understand her mood for sure, but at times I do think she's not exactly handling this alien well! Learn all you can, lady, because you're in huge trouble here. Great snippet.

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  6. LOL - good question at the end there!

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  7. Really enjoyed the short passage from your book. Thanks for sharing. ~Keta~
    @ketadiablo

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  8. oh, this could be a hard sell. Wonder if she'll help.

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  9. Boy, I am surprised that he's not reacting to her disrespect. Perhaps he's getting to know her better and making allowances for her behavior. Still I wonder why. Great snippet and story, Teresa!

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  10. That's a good question- I wonder what his answer will be?

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  11. I was surprised, too, that he stayed calm when her sarcasm was so strong. He's pretty patient.

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  12. Like a lot of other people, I'm wondering about his sudden calm. And why *should* she care about these people?

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  13. Like others, I'm intrigued by his calm response. I really enjoyed this snippet and want to know more!

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  14. Good question. Why should she care? Sure glad he's being patient and answering her questions.

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