 Action/Adventure: August 31, 2022 Issue [#11543] |
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Excerpt: In a basement transformed into a research facility, Professor 'Doc' Trainer worked alongside his post-grad student, Ian. For everything Ian had lost since childhood, he'd found through the professor. Despite the disparity of ages, Doc forty-seven, Ian twenty-seven, he considered Doc a best friend and a father.
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Excerpt: Kalob Montgomery heard the god awful noise approaching the house at an alarming speed. Maude must have heard it too because he heard a clatter of mason jars from the kitchen where she'd been putting up strawberry preserves the better part of the morning. He barely heard the squeak of the screen door as she burst through it and marched out onto her porch to confront whatever was headed her way.
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Excerpt: Without thinking, he reassured himself of his weapons in hidden locations around his body. Winter had been bad enough on the farms, worse than even the old ones remembered, but it must have been worse in the mountains, if the number of wolves driven down into the Twin Rivers was any guide.
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Excerpt: “Don’t be late.” The voice on his cell was tense and staccato.
“Noah, I shouldn’t have to tell you for this merger to work, I have to have you there with me.”
“Don’t worry boss lady,” he said reassuringly.
Excerpt: Lara raised a hand to rub her aching eyes. It was six hours after midnight, and even piloting sims were failing to keep her alert. She forced down a twinge of worry over the delay. Across the room, Roger still sat at his workstation, checking inventories and optimizing accounts - whatever it was her older brother did when he was "working."
Excerpt: My mother always knew. She always saw me for what I truly was.
All the jests and the foibles, the laughter created by a preposterous situation culminating in drunkenness. But funny thing, I never drank. Not really. Just enough in measure to keep my breath in par with all these others. Spent enough time around my father. Hell, my father and my mother both remained in such a state over various weekends and vacations, I keyed upon the habits, the exhibitions, the loss of structure and vocabulary. Always seemed that way. Like I was drunk. But I wasn't.
Excerpt: “S’where y'off to?”
Oh, swell, a chatty driver. Fletcher Jones pushed himself into the fake leather upholstery and pressed his feet firmly into the floor. Tell the truth? “Vegas. But it’s a work conference. No time for play.” He raised his voice so he’d be heard through the muffling plastic barrier between the front and back of the cab.
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This month's question: Do you connect with other authors during contests? How has it benefitted you?
Answer below  Editors love feedback! 
Last month's question: Do you enjoy plot twists with family trees? How do you use that in your writing??
BIG BAD WOLF is Merry  : My maternal grandfather's mother died - his father married her sister. They had kids together.
Also, don't get me started on the step-relations. I shared a class with a step-second cousin - didn't know until great-grandpa died that very year, and of course we were bringing the News on a daily basis - well, his family moved away, and I've yet to reconnect with him. Been like 20 years. To be fair, we didn't exactly get along too well, from what I remember.
Monty  : In answer to the question Twist on Family trees Not unless I stumble into one and then any writer might hold me hostage.
RICH  : Re; Cussing Tree (cousin?) What's that bloody monkey doing in my family tree?
daninidaho: Those twists sure are hard on the trunks...
Serena Blade : interesting but typical.
Bilal Latif  : I'm open to most tropes as long as they're executed well and appropriate to the story.
Also, to quote Dark Helmet: 'I Am Your Father's Brother's Nephew's Cousin's Former Roommate.'
Leslie Loo  : It depends if they become predictable.
N.A Miller  : You might be a redneck if your family tree doesn't branch. - Jeff Foxworthy
THANKFUL SONALI RIP BIKERIDER  : If they're done well, then yes. Recently listened to 'Kite Runner' with such a twist.
However, if bunged in for effect, without any prior hints, then no!
elephantsealer : Whenever I have a chance to get back to look at my family tree, I fall into pieces because of all the cousins, aunties, uncles that are scattered all over different states, countries, etc.... In other words, I get "twisted" out of control...
Blessed Christmouse  : Relatives come out of the woodwork for weddings and funerals. Someone showing up at one of those that nobody really knows might be interesting.
Thanks for all your replies!
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