Tag Archives: Science Fiction

Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 17 July 2016 (character interview for The Clone’s Complaint)

Posted on July 17, 2016 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. *** I fancied one or two of the Shipwright’s Apprentices when I was in my teens; those … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 10 July 2016 (character interview for The Clone’s Complaint)

Posted on July 10, 2016 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. *** Anyway, Yasmin my namesake. To guide me in the right paths, what-bloody-ever. Yasmin the coffee-farm … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 July 2016 (WIP Ship’s Heart)

Posted on July 3, 2016 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. *** Even in training exercises, her teacher said, Martisset moved with the atmosphere like a skilled rider … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 26 June 2016 (WIP Ship’s Heart)

Posted on June 26, 2016 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 refectory was another puzzle: bright and airy, as if there were no need to … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 29 May 2016 (theater excerpt)

Posted on May 29, 2016 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. *** VERA. Do you have stormy fights and passionate reconciliations? LOPHUKHOV. No, we try to work … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 May 2016 (character interview)

Posted on May 22, 2016 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. *** Naime moves and the priest moves, blank mirror face to hers, and in the negative space … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 May 2016 (character interview)

Posted on May 15, 2016 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. *** I know Naime is alive still, six hundred years later, for she underwent one final transformation. She’s … Continue reading →

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The Anthologist’s Art: interview with Athena Andreadis (To Shape the Dark)

Posted on May 9, 2016 by epbeaumont

Athena Andreadis has long been one of my science-fictional inspirations. Her life work in the field includes critical essays on a variety of subjects on her blog at Starship Reckless, her work as a writer of mythic space opera, and a collaborator … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 May 2016 (character interview)

Posted on May 8, 2016 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. *** I miss mortal life, like every spirit in the Between, for there one enters the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 May 2016 (character interview)

Posted on May 1, 2016 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 roads of the past are already laid; I cannot deviate from them. What happened, … Continue reading →

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