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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 December 2013 (Inside the Jump)

Posted on November 30, 2013 by epbeaumont

“There is no Immortal. He’s gone and done. Dead meat in Genubi’s lab now. She’s back-constructed a good piece of the elixir of immortality by now.” Yasmin had an unmistakably smug tone. “She’s giddy with it, keeps saying, ‘and I … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 24 November 2013 (Inside the Jump)

Posted on November 23, 2013 by epbeaumont

“I cannot transmit anything over the Uplink,” Iric Desnaray said. “What is the matter?”
 “The matter is that communications have been suspended until we have clarified the situation on board.”
 “What situation?”
 “Your colleague from T-7 has died.” 
To her … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 17 November 2013 (Inside the Jump)

Posted on November 16, 2013 by epbeaumont

“This situation isn’t going away just because the Immortal is dead.” Yasmin said, “I have put another piece in play. Taryn has agreed to speak for us to the Outposts. With your permission, Captains.”  “Oh no,” Jehen said, “with the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 10 November 2013 (Inside the Jump)

Posted on November 9, 2013 by epbeaumont

The next wave of data came through thoroughly laced with Yasmin’s out-and-out revulsion.  “It’s at least six hundred years old,” she said. “Age in Years Standard of the Original World, six hundred fifty-three Years, seven Months, twenty-one Days, fourteen Hours, … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 November 2013 (Inside the Jump)

Posted on November 2, 2013 by epbeaumont

“By the Fourth Prime,” the Ship’s Voice said, “that is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. Implosively weird. A walking hull-breach.” Jehen startled at Yasmin’s profanities. Not her usual style at all. And yes, it was weird. Genubi would make … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 26, 2013 by epbeaumont

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)

Posted on October 19, 2013 by epbeaumont

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)

Posted on October 12, 2013 by epbeaumont

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)

Posted on October 5, 2013 by epbeaumont

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)

Posted on September 28, 2013 by epbeaumont

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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