Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors blog hop, the one stop hop for all your fiction needs. This week I’m continuing with snippets from my erotic m/m space opera (how many descriptors can one novel need?) From Mars, With Love. Last week things were getting unpleasant in the slave ship when Eli’s captors decided to cut the ring off his finger. Today, for good or ill, Eli decides to be proactive.
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A pair of cutting shears emerged from the end of one of the crab’s arms- this was enough to wipe away all of Eli’s hesitations. He’d been pulling back against the crab’s tugs and abruptly stopped, using the bots momentum to direct its arm and pincher into its faceplate. The plastic cracked on impact and the eyeball tube bent sideways as the metal pincer struck it. Eli leapt on top of the crab, slid across its back and hit the floor hands first. He tucked, rolled, and came up in a crouch. Four security crabs raced towards him.
The Moon Unit grabbed an arm of the bot Eli had disabled and swung it around in a semi-arc before it fired its thrusters and sent itself careening into one of its mates. Pandemonium broke out as half the prisoners joined in the uprising, and half fell to the floor either begging forgiveness or merely covering their heads with their hands or hand-like appendages.
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I’m hoping this is a gun and not a fancy waffle iron.
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Alexis Duran 
Yay! Eli and the Moon Unit strike back! Loved the way the action just flowed. And then, “hand-like appendages.” Ew! 🙂
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Action dynamite. You sure know how to pile it on . Exciting and what happens next?
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Yay, finally they get to work!;) Fabulous snippet with great action. I like the “hand-like appendages”. It shows that in your universe not everyone is humanoid. I can’t wait to find out what happens next.
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I agree that the action was perfect and very descriptive. I love seeing other authors write fight scenes and the nuances
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Thanks! Action scenes aren’t exactly my forte and I always get nervous when I have to write a fight scene.
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I love all the action in this scene! I hope Eli retains that momentum and eventually escapes altogether.
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Love the flow of action and detail, especially the cutting shear from the crab’s arm. Well done!
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Loved the action and it was satisfying to see him getting an advantage.
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Go, Eli!! You’re really good at action sequences. This flows so smoothly.
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Fantastic scene! You wrote it perfectly to have the pace of the action move fast. Now we have chaos! Awesome! Nice job, Alexis!
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Suddenly, the scary robots are having a Three Stooges moment. He’d better seize the opportunity!
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Clever Eli! I wasn’t expecting this (neither were the robots, clearly) and loved the action…great snippet!
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