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Girl Under Glass #13: Enough! — Six Sentence Sunday

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Welcome back, Sixers, for another Six Sentence Sunday excerpt from Girl Under Glass. 

So, last Sunday was annoying — criminal activity in my hood. (No, I was not involved, you cheeky monkeys. And, yes, we’re unscathed, but the neighbor’s place was not.) The end result is that I didn’t get to respond to your comments, so I’m doing it en masse. You. Are. Awesome! (Man, I’m not sure about another group hug. I’m kinda leery ’cause one of you grabbed my ass last week. Erotica writers, you know I’m talking about you. o.O)

Okay, on with it. Picking up from the last post. Here’s the alien soldier’s response to Rachel’s threat to remove his head with her shotgun.

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His chin lifted as he folded his arms and looked down at me, his face a blank canvas. I didn’t doubt that the Ohnenrai people’s emotional detachment had made it easy to kill billions of Terrans.

The dogs, baring and gnashing their teeth, advanced. The man eyed my protectors. “Varet!” The word boomed from him even as he remained expressionless.

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Girl Under Glass #11: You Don’t Know Me — Six Sentence Sunday

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Hi-dee-ho, Sixers! Welcome back for another Six Sentence Sunday installment from Girl Under Glass. I spent all day Saturday formatting the book for its print release, so please forgive me if I’m writing gibberish. I’ve decided to take you guys through this opening scene with Rachel and the Stranger before moving on to other things.

So here we go. Continuing from last week, when Rachel told her visitor that she doesn’t think much of his promises. (For anyone new here, the Stranger is an alien soldier who’s currently facing two snarling dogs and a woman with a loaded shotgun. You can read from the beginning here.)

Note: The first speaker is the soldier.

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“You don’t know me, yet you threaten my life?”

“You’re Ohnenrai.” The name twisted from my lips like a curse. He was the first Stranger I’d spoken to in the twelve years since my parents had died in Ohnenrai custody.

Jack and Audie rumbled their agreement.

“You’d shoot me because I was born on another planet?”

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Girl Under Glass #9 The Standoff Continues: Six Sentence Sunday

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Hellooo, Sixers! Finally have a weekend at home and can settle in (a bit) to enjoy the Six Sentence Sunday rounds. I’ve been woefully remiss in responding and visiting, and I intend to remedy that today.

I’m posting another few weeks from Girl Under Glass, then may take a break to visit another project. Dunno; we’ll see what mood strikes me. In the meantime, we’re picking up where we left off last week with Rachel, the dogs (Jack and Audie), and the Stranger facing off in her yard.

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I tightened my grip on the gun. Maybe I wasn’t as fearless as I’d hoped. “What’re you doing here?”

He lowered his arms. Jack stepped forward, and Audie snarled. The man’s hands shot back up.

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I wouldn’t do that if I was him.

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What I would do is visit the official Six Sentence Sunday site for a list of links to the many other authors participating in this week’s hop. ;D

Six Sentence Sunday: Girl Under Glass #4 — Confrontation

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Welcome back, Sixers! We’re continuing this week’s Six Sentence Sunday snippet with Girl Under Glass and the beginning of the confrontation between Rachel and the Stranger who appeared in her yard. (A reminder that Jack and Audie are Rachel’s dogs.)

Note: The always awesome K.E. Saxon asked about this book’s title last week. Girl Under Glass alludes to the fact that Rachel is part of an ongoing genetic experiment being conducted by the Ohnenrai, Earth’s alien conquerors. She often feels like she’s under a microscope or inside a petri dish. Thanks for asking, K.E.!

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[The dogs] flanked me, all hackles and teeth and threats, as I crossed the porch and strode through the rain and mud, the shotgun wedged against my shoulder.

He wore the gray-and-green fatigues of an Ohnenrai field tech.

“Don’t you move.” I leveled the gun at his chest as I came across the yard.

He raised his arms, and his gaze traveled from the gun to Jack and Audie. “I’m not here to hurt you.”

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Me’thinks he’s gonna have to do some quick explaining to convince Rachel and the dogs.

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Six Sentence Sunday: Girl Under Glass #2 — What’s Out There?

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Photo: Clara Natoli (claranatoli.blogspot.com)

Hola, and welcome back for another Six Sentence Sunday post. I’m knee-deep in html and ebook formatting this week, so forgive me if I seem a bit addled.

Thanks for all the encouraging comments on last week’s opening six from Girl Under Glass. Here are the next six from that novel.

Last week, Rachel’s dogs heard something outside her little cabin. Do you think it’s gone?

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Then the dogs lunged toward the door.

Pearl stiffened at the table, her doll’s clothes forgotten. Wide-eyed and watching me, my seven-year-old daughter knew better than to make a sound as Jack and Audie growled and paced.

I wiped my hands and grabbed the shotgun from the kitchen wall mount. At the door, I pulled up the peephole rag and scanned the yard.

A man stood by our fence—a dark man.

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Boo! Did I scare ya? :D

No? Well, high-tail it over to the official Six Sunday site for links to lots of other sixers’ snippets. There’s good stuff to be read, and maybe one of them will scare the bejeezus outta ya.

Six Sentence Sunday: Girl Under Glass #1 — The First Sign of Trouble

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Hello, friends, and welcome back for another Six Sentence Sunday. I’m gonna take a little break from First Comes Famine to introduce (or re-introduce for some of you) Girl Under Glass. This book is romantic dystopian/sci-fi and will be released this month. It is a 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semi-finalist, and you can read its blurb here.

So, starting from the beginning, I’d like you to meet Terran medic, Rachel Pryne, her seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, and their dogs, Jack and Audie:

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The dogs growled.

I glanced to where they sat beside the fireplace with their heads lifted and ears pricked. “Jack, Audie, what is it?” Listening, I heard only rain drumming on our metal roof, so I shrugged and turned back to the stove. Plucking a scalpel from the boiling water with tongs, I placed it in the sterile box and blinked steam from my eyes as I chased a needle around the pot. “Dang it.”

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Now that you’ve read this, please take a moment to visit the official Six Sentence Sunday site for links to more awesome sixes.

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