Tag Archives: Excerpt

Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 31 October 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)

Posted on November 1, 2015 by epbeaumont

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 25 October 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on October 25, 2015 by epbeaumont

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. *** Yasmin glared up at the banner of the Hydrological Trinity above the Library archway. Those … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 18 October 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on October 18, 2015 by epbeaumont

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. *** Mavra had warned them … Jehen’s breath caught sometimes when she realized she might not … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 11 October 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on October 11, 2015 by epbeaumont

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. *** The afternoon passed overhead, with bird-cries and strokes of white cloud; Jehen was only distantly … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 4 October 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on October 3, 2015 by epbeaumont

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. *** Yasmin picked her way through the clauses of the Treaty: the child-tribute, the yearly supply … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 September 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on September 27, 2015 by epbeaumont

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 13 September 2015 (WIP: In the Breath of the Groves and the Brightness of the Stars)

Posted on September 13, 2015 by epbeaumont

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)

Posted on September 6, 2015 by epbeaumont

“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 23 August 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)

Posted on August 23, 2015 by epbeaumont

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)

Posted on August 16, 2015 by epbeaumont

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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