Tag Archives: Ship’s Heart

Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 May 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on May 3, 2015 by epbeaumont

“So on Karis, I’d be Jehen Outlander,” Jehen said. “Oh no, you’d be Jehen whatever-your-epithet-is. Sarronny’s different.” “Why?” Yasmin asked. Mavra smiled, as if she’d been waiting for that question. “You know about the Revolt, and the Treaty–that’s why. We’re … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 26 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)

Posted on April 26, 2015 by epbeaumont

Downbelow, the Inhabitants make music in the infrared, and I bathe my own inhabitants (those lower-case, the Humans) in subtle movements of warmth. I wear my history, in the constant circulation of signals, in the minute dents in the hull; … Continue reading →

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Ship’s Heart: Naime the Shipwright (character interview)

Posted on April 23, 2015 by epbeaumont

My day, or rather, my Day, is counted differently now that I am no longer mortal, or rather, embodied in a mortal frame.

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 19 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on April 19, 2015 by epbeaumont

Mavra turned to Ferenc. “It’s a story, but yes, on Karis they did once cut throats on the altar of the Queen of the Snows. For treason and for disobeying clan-affiliation rules, but they haven’t done that in recent times, … Continue reading →

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Ship’s Heart: Naime the Shipwright (character interview)

Posted on April 16, 2015 by epbeaumont

Sick with a spring cold and/or allergies, and still struggling with nonfiction writing. So instead, another fictional excerpt which is more than a propos to some of our current questions. *** Love is atmosphere, it’s safety, it’s the circle within … Continue reading →

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Ship’s Heart: Naime the Shipwright (character interview)

Posted on April 15, 2015 by epbeaumont

I am Naime-Martisset yr Astok. My parents and their marriage-patron are long dead, as am I. I persist now as a memory, one of the Ship’s-Hearts, though it’s no longer a ship, really, but … that’s another story. Too long … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 12 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on April 12, 2015 by epbeaumont

Ferenc and the little ones darted between them, imitating the dancers who fell when the light stabbed across them. The song rose to a despairing shriek; the scene changed, without warning, to a dais on which the sole survivor stood, … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 5 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on April 5, 2015 by epbeaumont

Blue is the color of life, Mavra had said. As they arrived in the Karis system, Jehen watched the steady blue glow at the planet’s curve. Space shaded from lightless black, the color of Nothing near absolute zero, to the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 29 March 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on March 29, 2015 by epbeaumont

Behind the crew entered a woman whose ordinary brown skin was threaded with scars on one half of her face, and on the other, gave way to glass and ceramic fittings and an unblinking eye that wasn’t anything natural. Gasps … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 March 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on March 22, 2015 by epbeaumont

Yasmin listened, putting her hands up to feel the bells in her tightly twisted braids. They pulled pleasantly on her scalp; she wiggled her ears and they jingled faintly. Jehen looked at her sidelong; even though she was a year … Continue reading →

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