It’s Sunday again, and time for Weekend Writing Warriors (click on the logo above) and Snippet Sunday (click on the logo below.) Today I’m posting 8 sentences from my first published book, Homecoming, available in all formats from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and iUniverse.
This is a continuation from last week, and Derik is speaking. Intense esper activity lowers blood sugar, by the way, so “esper shock” (hypoglycemia or insulin shock) is a constant danger for espers. Derik is responding to Ander’s dumping Roi in the pool when things went south.
“Good thinking. Now get some food into him. Get his blood sugar up,” Derik replied. He straightened up cautiously to stagger past Vara, on her way to the service pillar, and dropped to his knees by Nik’s side. “How bad?” he asked.
“Broken collarbone, some bruises, and one hell of a headache, but I suspect every esper on the island shares that. Derik, he pulled most of it. It was a brainstem reaction, and the instant he was aware of it he pulled it.”
So it wasn’t deliberate on Roi’s part, just lack of control.
Incidentally, last week’s image was of V 838 Monocerotis, taken April 30,2002. This week’s is the same star taken May 20 the same year. I’ll have more shots taken in September and December the same year, as well as one from 2006.
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Interesting.
Nice 8.
glad you like it.
Tense moments!
Yes, especially for Roi.
You haven’t let the tension drop off at all, which is a very good thing. I like the physical and “realistic” consequences of esper shock. Great eight!
A little too realistic, from Nik’s point of view.
Interesting. I love the reality of it.
Realism is important to good s-f.
I always enjoy the thoroughness of all the detail in your stories. This episode is no exception – well done snippet!
Thanks. Lots of thinking “what if.”
This is a tough place to be!
Especially for Derik and Nik.
What an imagination and detail. Brilliant eight.
I try to imagine how things might really happen, given alternate assumptions.
You know I’m a big fan of reality mixed with sci-fi or fantasy, and this delivers. Great tension and very intriguing, Sue Ann!
Not everything is intentional.
Excellent tension Sue Ann. You always deliver : )
Thanks. This is really the first time they’ve realized just how much ability Roi has.
Makes sense that all that brain work would have a price–nothing comes free. Sounds like the consequences of this little adventure are going to be fun. 😛
The esper shock is even more important in Tourist Trap.
The more I read about Roi, the more I like him. And I’m so glad he has friends like these. 🙂
I like him, too.
The whole esper storyline is fascinating, Sue Ann. It added a wonderful layer of complexity to your characters.
The moral complexities of a talent like mind-reading are an important part of my pots.
Glad everyone survived. Now I wonder how Roi will take the pain of a broken collarbone and how they will fix it.
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