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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 23 February 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

The sea is bright tonight, under the Greater Moon. Somewhere on the shores of the Inland Sea, the Sarronny grubbers are dancing and the cadets watching them in fascination. The Great Council are considering the evidence our agents have submitted … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 16 February 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

I had no first love, not in the sense of archaic ballads. There is what is called physical love, and I have had plenty of that, by way of natural reward for the Astok physiognomy. My parents called me avatar … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 February 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

I am Temn yr Astok, and at this late date it does not matter who my parents were, or who sponsored their marriage. I am the Astok great-clan, pure and simple, except for a few rivalrous upstarts. There are days … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 5 January 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Not a matter of weeks but of centuries are the great tasks, but of course we live it a moment at a time, and one  must keep everything in balance. So this week passed in calm, on the face of … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 October 2013 (Character interview: Martisset from Inside the Jump)

And that time I was not consciously eavesdropping, but watching — on a sunrise flight with my aunt Tethys, who pointed out when we were approaching the long, broad Valley of Settlement, where the first colony on Karis had been … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 20 October 2013 (Character interview: Yasmin from Inside the Jump)

I am the Ship, these fifteen years. I am the Ship’s-Heart, and none but my captains know that I was ever anything else. I am the same as I ever was, think the same thoughts, even dream, but the air … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 October 2013 (Character interview: Jehen from Inside the Jump)

My name is Jehen, and I’m in charge here–so they say, anyway. The truth of the matter is something more complicated, but then the ones planet-side don’t have the faintest idea of what happens out in space. They have the … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 6 October 2013 (Character interview: Sophie from Shape-shifter’s Tale)

My father called himself Irish but there was something else as well—something in the tilt of the cheekbones, the breadth of the nose, the wave of the hair. No one dared say it to his face, for those were fighting … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 29 September (Character interview: Sophie from Shape-shifter’s Tale)

I liked to run about and to climb trees and to dance. The dancing became rather more formal, of course, and some of it we learned from vaudeville and from films, and some from the people that papa knew.  Papa … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 September (Character interview: Sophie from Shape-shifter’s Tale)

I live in many worlds. There is a version of me who lives in the autonomous commune of Minneapolis and St. Paul (they never did change the old names), and another who lives in the America that never entered the … Continue reading

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