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Category Archives: Writing
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 31 October 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)
Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Martisset nodded approvingly when she saw what I took out of my pockets. “You provision … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 September 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)
Yasmin, like Ferenc, enjoyed stories. He collected them. She watched those tales shape and reshape themselves over centuries and light-years, under the shifting light of political notions. Yasmin remembered that ghost-opera projected in the Dome by Mavra’s old holo-cube projector. … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 20 September 2015 (WIP: In the Breath of the Groves and the Brightness of the Stars)
“It’s not getting any better,” Efi said, offhand, to Mavra’s gene-mother. “I’m no terraformer, but I know the theory at least. We’ve got sandstorms and the climate’s heated up. It’s shifted, but not in the right direction.” She added, “You … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 September 2015 (WIP: In the Breath of the Groves and the Brightness of the Stars)
Mavra was five years old when her parents emigrated from the ship-colonies. She had witnessed one funeral under the open sky of the True Ocean, stars blazing overhead, voices raised from ship to ship, before her near kin boarded a … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 6 September 2015 (WIP: Shipwright, Captain, Figurehead)
“And you’re going off planet.” “Well, yes that’s what starships do.” “Naime!” Axia leaned over. “Now that you mention it I’ll have some of that tea. Is there something stronger to put in it?” “Desecration,” Naime said. “Drink cognac, or … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 30 August 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)
Feo embraced me and laughed. “Is that him?” she whispered, nodding toward Hernan. “He is pretty.” I forestalled her before she could even joke about the next bit. No, he’s not her traveling-companion, but mine; if he wants to join … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 23 August 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)
When I was first restored to my gene-mother, or she to me, after her Transition, she bathed me in the lullabies of the Inhabitants, waves of warmth. I understood she was different, as I was. The Shipwright had explained it … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 16 August 2015 (WIP: In the Breath of the Groves and the Brightness of the Stars)
Ever since Landfall, the ship-colonies have traversed the True Ocean. They follow the fisheries and the storm-systems, closely enough to capture rain, not so close as to receive the worst of hurricane winds. Ever since Landfall, the Groves have been … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 9 August 2015 (WIP: Shipwright, Captain, Figurehead)
Storm-gate, Naime celebrated with the apprentices in the workshop, and the Master of the Yard, who was a patron-cousin of her elder-father on the Iskra side. A delegation of fresh-faced cadets and students from the New Academy came all the … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 2 August 2015 (WIP: Shipwright, Captain, Figurehead)
Slava was an Outlander, a shame about that, Axia had said. What could she have meant … except that Outlanders weren’t candidates for clan-marriage. Naime closed her eyes, as if sinking into the cybernetic reverie that carried her to the … Continue reading
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E. P. Beaumont 