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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 #12: Unreasonable — Six Sentence Sunday

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So, I just wanna thank all of you wonderful Sixers for visiting and commenting each week. Your feedback is invaluable.

Awww. Group hug, group hug!

Um. Okay, so let’s get on with the next installment of Girl Under Glass for Six Sentence Sunday. I’ve repeated the last sentence (the soldier’s dialogue) from last week’s post because without it, this just doesn’t pack the same punch. Reminder: Rachel has him at the end of her shotgun.

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

It sounded unreasonable, but I wouldn’t back down. Not from one of Earth’s conquerors.

“I can’t undo my birth, can I?” he added.

I raised the gun to point at his head. “I can.”

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Doh!

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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 #10: Worthless Word — Six Sentence Sunday

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Welcome back, Sixers. August was a good release month for Girl Under Glass, and sales exceeded my goal. My thanks to those of you who’ve bought the book; I do hope you enjoy(ed) the read. :D

Today’s Six Sentence Sunday post continues Rachel’s gunpoint confrontation with the alien soldier. (Last week that soldier learned that Rachel’s dogs, Jack and Audie, are as suspicious of his intentions as Rachel is.)

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He grimaced and shifted, and I glanced at his right leg. Mud and blood caked his fatigues from the knee down. It had thundered and blustered all night, and I didn’t envy this man being caught in the storm.

“I’m not here to harm you,” he said. “You have my word.”

“Which isn’t worth shit.”

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She’s not giving him an inch. Not yet anyway.

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As always, I recommend a trip to the Six Sentence Sunday website to get the list of writers participating in this week’s hop.

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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Six Sentence Sunday: Girl Under Glass #6 — You’re in Suffer

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Hey, Sixers, guess what? Girl Under Glass is now available in ebook format at Amazon. :D If you read it, would you leave an honest review, please? I’d love to hear what you have to say, positive or negative; my writing will benefit from both. And you’ll have my gratitude…and a good book!

In last week’s Six Sentence Sunday post, Rachel’s injured alien visitor asked for a comtab. Let’s see if she helped him out:

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The dogs snarled, their hair raised and their ears back.

The towering pines creaked and whooshed. Water droplets showered us as I stopped and tightened the gun against my shoulder. “No comtabs here, Ohnenran. Not even a phone. You’re in Suffer.”

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Ruh-roh.

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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 #3 — Stay here. Stay quiet.

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Man, you guys, it’s been a hectic few weeks. I’m gonna be out-of-pocket today, too, but will do my best to make the Six Sentence Sunday rounds and respond to your comments. (Isn’t summer supposed to be relaxing?!) Thank you, all, for the wonderful feedback on last week’s post. It’s always appreciated.

Continuing with Girl Under Glass, we left Rachel and Pearl in the house, startled to see a man in their yard. Rachel’s armed with a shotgun, and she does, indeed, know how to use it.

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“Oh, Christ, there’s a Stranger inside the gate. Stay here. Stay quiet.”

Pearl nodded. She scrambled into the kitchen and retrieved the scalpel. I chambered a round and said, “Heel, dogs,” as I opened the door.

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Note: Before you guys ask, the capitalization of Stranger isn’t a typo. :)

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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.