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Saturday, August 4, 2018

Weekend Writing Warriors, August 5, 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 Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, on their own blog to go live by 9:00 AM Sunday, EST.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 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.    
          This week's snippet begins a new chapter:
 
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.”


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

17 comments:

  1. I gather that her opinion of aliens may have changed, over just a little thing like the destruction of a planet.

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  2. Kind of hard to extend a hand of friendship when they just want to kill/enslave you.

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  3. I 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.

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  4. How devastating and yet, you have to move on and survive.

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  5. As always, a lovely, smooth bit of writing.

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  6. I love her slow but gradual acceptance of what's happened. Very well done!

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  7. Very poignant scene. How does one process such a monumental loss?

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  8. That wondering is a very real and poignant train of thought.

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  9. Oh NO.............I keep hoping it's a nightmare and she'll wake up. But no. Teresa, you have me wrapped around this story.

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  10. The reality was a horrible shock. Has she found a true haven?

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  11. Poor girl. She will definitely need to adapt, but she's tough. I believe in her!

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  12. Losing everyone she loved, along with the rest of Earth? How devastating. Was that last line supposed to be sardonic?

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  13. There's no guarantee that aliens would be any better than humans--some good, some bad. Sounds like her idealism is over and done, though.

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  14. That last line is so Great! I'm wondering how that has changed for her.

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  15. Sorry 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...

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  16. Such 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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