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Tag Archives: Excerpt
Six Sentence Sunday, 2 December 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)
The last golden light gave way to torchlight, and they leaned toward each other, in the rich firelight, and once or twice their fingers brushed, in reaching for the same delicacy. The meat was succulent, and the wine delightful, and … Continue reading
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Six Sentence Sunday, 25 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)
There were other things to attend, as well: what prospects might open up were Antony amenable to accepting her as an ally. There was the troublesome matter of Arsinoe, who yet remained a force, and frustratingly beyond her reach, as … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: And now, for the technical naughty bits (Excerpt!)
The viewpoint character of Cleopatra’s Ironclads is not your standard Cleopatra, and one sure sign of that is the lack of Naughty Bits as traditionally construed. To make up for that, there are geektastic scenes of engineering, in which Cleopatra’s design … Continue reading
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Six Sentence Sunday, 18 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)
Caesar had had his conference with Sosigenes the astronomer, and made notes on the reform of the calendar, which would be undertaken on his return to Rome. She had a project of her own to undertake, as well. Timaeus was … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: Live from the 28-hour writing tour (The eve of the Ides of March)
Cleopatra had a rough night on 14 March 44 BC, like everyone else in Rome. (Special thanks to Bill Shakespeare for the weather report.) During the night the wind rose, and she heard it howling in the wee hours, whistling … Continue reading
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Six Sentence Sunday, 11 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)
Cleopatra leaped to her feet and paced. Timaeus–was Timaeus in the burning Library? and then foolishly, but what about the last scroll of the treatise on automata? She wouldn’t know how it turned out. And that she most passionately wanted … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: a different kind of Trip (and an excerpt)
This year’s NaNo novel is a challenge, with a lot of reading left undone at the time I began. Increasingly, I’m realizing that this one is less a draft novel than a first sketch. Every novel is a Trip, in … Continue reading
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Six Sentence Sunday, 4 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)
The censorious didn’t care for the rites of the god of wine, but he was the protector of the whole dynasty: the god of frenzy and change, the deity of chance. No army moved without proper rations of wine and … Continue reading
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Six Sentence Sunday, 28 October 2012 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)
Tristan, whom she’d initially taken for a skinny and somewhat theatrical girl, had long hair that flopped over one eye. His black cloak covered a colorful ensemble rather like a kilt, only made of innumerable squares of shiny stuff, and … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 21 October 2012 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)
Annie danced with Rafe. Rafe was not only her date, but her friend. He was family and he was safe. She had never felt quite safe with high school dating, with everybody talking about who had done what with whom. … Continue reading
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