Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors. Meet writers in various genres and read 8-10 sentence snippets of their stories. Find a new author and sample their work. Enjoy!
This weekend, I’m continuing snippets from my new SciFi Romance story, ALARIK, book 4 in Taxyon Space.
Phoebe Wong is at a training session for colonists bound for a distant planet. She is tending to the sheep.
Alarik, masquerading as wealthy mining magnate Rick Kent, has been invited to observe the colonists at a training center. He gets special treatment because everybody wants a piece of his fake asteroid of rare metals. The manager, Bron Hamme, is showing him the future colonists.
You can read last week’s snippet at https://auroraspringer.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-capable-woman-snippet-from-alarik.html
This week’s snippet continues a few lines afterward.
(edited a little from published version with extra semicolons to fit 10 sentences.)
As Alarik mulled over the
challenges of establishing a viable colony on a strange planet, a piercing wail
interrupted his thoughts; he asked sharply, “What’s that?”
“Don’t worry, Mr. Kent; it’s just
an emergency drill, a standard part of their training.”
The sky darkened overhead; a
light patter on the exterior of the dome switched abruptly to a deafening crash
of particles.
Hamme’s face paled in shock; “Sandstorm.
Not a drill.” Dashing to the wall, he grabbed a couple of oxygen canisters and
pushed one into Alarik’s hand, yelling over the siren’s noise, “Can’t risk a
breach in the dome.”
Stunned by the sudden change,
Alarik accepted the cylinder, adjusting the attached mask to cover his nose and
mouth, he looked down.
In the field below, the woman glanced
at the sand showering onto the transparent barrier; her eyebrows compressed
briefly. She clipped an oxygen tube on her nose and shooed the children toward
the exit. Tucking the second lamb under her free arm, she calmly walked toward
a box-like enclosure; the adult sheep, probably the lambs’ mother, trotted
after her. She urged them into their cage, secured the door and followed the
children to the exit.
Blurb:
Two people fleeing their planets
discover a shared destiny.
When an alien spacecraft crashes on Mars, the
repercussions sweep throughout the solar system and endanger the fragile new
alliance with the Warrish mermen.
Alarik Kenton Tallis, First of his Triad, is
forced to infiltrate human society on Earth as a spy to insure his injured
brother receives proper medical care. But when his transmissions are detected,
he must flee the planet.
On Mars, Phoebe Wong, a veterinary scientist
with dubious family connections, is desperate to escape the underworld gangs
terrorizing the domed city. She jumps at the chance to join the colonists bound
for a distant exoplanet.
Their paths intersect on a space ferry bound
for the outer planets. Trouble created by the mysterious spacecraft pursues
them to Jupiter. Will they find the answers in the oceans of Europa, the
hyperspace gateway to the stars protected by three diverse species?
ALARIK will release on Wednesday, 22nd at
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