It’s Sunday, and snippet time. Click on the logo above to find other participating authors, or on the logo below to get to the facebook page with similar information.
I’m still posting the same scene from War’s End, a WIP. The group has been stranded, how they do not know, on a very hot, wet, jungle planet. They have rigged a shelter and are waiting to see if the rain stops, though by now it is evening. Coralie has been suggesting that they will need a latrine trench, and trying to stop her daughter Michelle’s fussing. She has just asked if there is something wrong with Michelle or with her, and she continues to speak. If you want background, the index (above) has all of the Sunday snippets.
“She feels like she’s starving, and aside from a couple of naps she’s been nursing since we got here. And I thought she was getting plenty, until a few minutes ago. I’ve run dry!”
“That’s how we got here,” Kelty laughed abruptly. “She’s her father’s daughter, all right.”
The others looked bewildered for a moment, and then Ginger began to giggle.
Obviously Ginger and Kelty have suddenly figured something out, but what?
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Sue Ann, that isn’t fair!
Realistic and well-written (as usual), but unfair. 😀
If you man it’s just six sentences, sorry, but I thought the third list would be up. Back to 8 next week. (Anyway, 6 sentences gave a nice cliff-hanger.
No, I meant I want to know what they figured out!
I don’t count your sentences, Sue Ann—I’m fully aware you’re better at math than I will ever be. 🙂
Interesting, can’t wait to learn the problem! Great snippet!
They have enough problems, but they may have and answer (if not a solution) to one.
Fun and intriguing post, loved it!
Glad you likes it.
Now what did Daddy do? Sue Anne, you asked why I didn’t turn off the thing on my blog where you have to read hard to read letters. I can’t think what you call it. I can’t because the minute I do I get spammed big time. A few weeks ago I figured they might have given up on me, so I turned it off, but in the course of an hour I got thirty spam messages.
Not so much what he did as what he is. If you’ve read any of my other books, he’s Roi, grown up.
My WordPress blog has a filter that catches almost all the spam and redirects it to a spam folder. I do have to check that (it can get as many as 10-20 a day) because it gets over-zealous at times, but it does a darned good job.
She ran dry. Poor baby. And the ship they traveled in must have lost power-run dry. I’ll tune in next week. Good eight.
No, it was sabotaged, and when they found themselves in hostile space, they went to minimum power to avoid detection.
Nice eight. Anxious to see how they’re going to go from here…
Have to wait and see if I have my editor mollified with the changes I’m making in the first book in the trilogy.
It’s the baby’s fault? Now, that’s intriguing!
They’d be even worse off if the baby’s survival instincts hadn’t kicked in.
Always intriguing! This poor group of people and aliens has so many challenges to face. Laughter is a nice break in the tension. Can’t wait to find out what next! Great snippet!
There are times when I can’t help myself.
That’s what I want to know too…what have they figured out??
Next week!
Sounds like Daddy was out of the ordinary. Now I’m really curious.
Oh, he is.
Well, you’ve certainly left us hanging now. This is so intriguing! Looking forward to the next excerpt.
See you next week.
I like how Giner giggles while everyone looks bewildered.
Those who have the clues are figuring it out one by one.
Love that Ginger giggles first. lol Guess Daddy is something else. 🙂
That he is.
So it’s the baby’s fault?? Dying to know!
Well they were in a pretty tight spot just before they found themselves on Rakal
Yes, but what? I wanna know too! Nice snippet.
Check next week.
Hmm. something sucked them dry and made them crash?
They didn’t crash. One minute they were on the ship and the next they were tumbling through the vegetation. Coralie’s the one who’se run dry; she’s been suckling the baby almost non-stop and she’s run out of milk.
The ever-growing and changing complexity of these snippets gives great insight into the story. I like that you’ve thrown some humor in there.
What I’ve done is take a chapter with secondary characters and blog it 8 sentences at a time. Nothing left out, just the way thing develop in the story. Major character is the baby’s father, who’s tearing his hair out on another planet.
I want to know what they figured out too!
Drop by next week.