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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 in a room on the ship with a portal she can see the outside through. She's recently learned that Earth was destroyed and her husband and children are dead.
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This week's snippet is from "The Sands of Dhor". Lily, abducted from Earth by alien slavers, is in a room on the ship with a portal she can see the outside through. She's recently learned that Earth was destroyed and her husband and children are dead.
Like so many other days, Lily was in the
star room trying to picture where home had been. It wasn’t as if she’d actually know if her
eyes did happen to rest the direction of Earth. But she couldn’t stop her
thoughts from going there, or her eyes from searching for home.
Was
it all gone, she wondered—like they’d used some super-nuke on it and melted it
into oblivion? Or was it still there, a sheet of glass, or a smoking hulk… a
reminder of what had been? A charred warning for all to heed of what waited out in the cold darkness of space?
She remembered an astronomy class she’d
taken, and how many times the conversation had keeled off course. Young,
idealistic students imagining what was out there in that vast vacuum, and she’d
been one of them. “Extend the hand of friendship. Welcome alien visitors with
open arms, if and when they arrive.”
I gather that her opinion of aliens may have changed, over just a little thing like the destruction of a planet.
ReplyDeleteKind of hard to extend a hand of friendship when they just want to kill/enslave you.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if she knew exactly what happened whether it would really help with the healing process. Though, how do you ever fully recover from everything that has happened to her. Plus, I'm sure she will have survivor's guilt.
ReplyDeleteHow devastating and yet, you have to move on and survive.
ReplyDeleteAs always, a lovely, smooth bit of writing.
ReplyDeleteI love her slow but gradual acceptance of what's happened. Very well done!
ReplyDeleteVery poignant scene. How does one process such a monumental loss?
ReplyDeleteThat wondering is a very real and poignant train of thought.
ReplyDeleteOh NO.............I keep hoping it's a nightmare and she'll wake up. But no. Teresa, you have me wrapped around this story.
ReplyDeleteThe reality was a horrible shock. Has she found a true haven?
ReplyDeletePoor girl. She will definitely need to adapt, but she's tough. I believe in her!
ReplyDeleteLosing everyone she loved, along with the rest of Earth? How devastating. Was that last line supposed to be sardonic?
ReplyDeleteThere's no guarantee that aliens would be any better than humans--some good, some bad. Sounds like her idealism is over and done, though.
ReplyDeleteSo devastating. I feel for her.
ReplyDeleteThat last line is so Great! I'm wondering how that has changed for her.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be so late commenting, was on a tight deadline for a book! So after you said we didn't need to mod last week, I dove back into my edits and I'm just making the rounds now. Enjoyed the snippet- I definitely do think a person would wonder and try to picture what happened, what was left...very poignant. And the way the snippet ends is quite compelling all right! Terrific...
ReplyDeleteSuch a poignant excerpt. Sorry, I'm even later than Veronica - having been away for the weekend I then received an audio file of one of my books to edit by today! Great snippet as usual!
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