I’ll be pretty slow getting to other authors today, as I’m attending a writers’ conference. I’ll try to get around eventually, but it will be Monday or Tuesday.
My snippet is again from War’s End, following last week’s.
It took nearly half an hour before she found herself in the clearing that held Kelty, and Michelle was once again demanding to be fed.
The pilot was on the trunk of a giant tree that had fallen atop a tangle of smaller ones, and at first she thought that the vines wrapping the trunk were somehow also wrapped around him. But as she came closer, she saw that only a few, very thin vines actually crossed his body. “Don’t touch the vines,” he cautioned. “They’re sticky. Very sticky.”
Perhaps I should add that Kelty is in his fifties and not terribly athletic?
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Sticky vines? Interesting. Or does he just not want to get up? I like that he landed on a giant tree trunk. Great detail.
Actually, he’s kind of hung up.
Great description and very cool about the sticky vines. Hope she listens and doesn’t touch them.
I hope so too.
Ooh, intriguing and kinda creepy.
Their whole situation’s creepy.
I dunno – sticky vines don’t sound too good but on the other hand they probably broke his fall. Very nice six.
They didn’t fall so much as roll.
It’s a strange planet.
Those vines sound ominous. Great six.
Everything sounds ominous to them right now.
Are the vines just sticky or are they also poisonous? Fun six!
Wait and see.
I’m leary of those vines. I suspect they represent trouble. Nice detail.
Well, they certainly represent trouble to Kelty.
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Uh oh, sticky vines! I was wondering if perhaps he’d been captured by someone or something – this story is highly intriguing!!! Great six…
I just hope I can get the trilogy published! I’ll have a test pitch for the first book up for the GUTGAA (gearing up to get an agent) blog. Hope I can get in this time.
Ha, you were quicker than me getting to the snippets. 😉 Enjoyed this week’s. I hope she can figure out how to “unstick” the vines!
It’ll be up in three hours.
The vines having circled him is fantastically unnerving!
Ecologically, the vines use stickiness to snare prey and are very slow to grow over it and absorb the nutrients. Kelty got caught less than an hour ago. Besides, those vines normally grow high in the canopy. They’re didn’t really evolve to capture something as big as a human.