Welcome to another exciting episode of Weekend Writing Warriors! I’m inching my way, eight lines by eight lines, to the exciting conclusion of The Call To Adventure Chapter of my erotic space opera, From Mars, With Love. Last week, faced with having certain beloved body parts forcibly removed, our hero Eli took a wild gamble and made a break for it. Pandemonium ensued.
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The doors hissed open and a phalanx of guards charged in. Eli grabbed a confused asteroider and used him as a shield, avoiding the first blast of a generalized stun gun. Asteroiders as well as prisoners slumped to the ground and the shock wave seemed to have an ill effect on the crabs. Several started to spin and collide.
“For Chriton’s sake, don’t use the electric wave in here!” cried one of the guards. They too appeared confused. Eli had the distinct impression this had never happened to them before. He felt proud as well as terrified as he snatched a syringe hose and plunged it into the chest of an onrushing guard. He picked up the guard’s dropped weapon as he climbed over the body.
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Fun with guns (in space)
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Alexis Duran 
Woo-hoo! This escape attempt is going very well (so far). You do write a great action scene.
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Haha, vivid–and amusing–sequence here! Great snippet.
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I can just picture those crabs behaving a little like Keystone cops. Nicely written.
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Eli’s pretty darn good in a crisis. I also loved the visual of the spinning robots. Yay! Excellent excerpt!
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What fun as Eli comes into his own. You’ve written a humorous action scene so well.
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I love how he’s taken charge! The fight instinct has won out over the flight instinct.
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They’re making a lot of mistakes, suddenly. He’d better get while the getting’s good!
In that picture, it’s odd that only Daniel has a weapon, and the rest are making guns with their hands, isn’t it?
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I like to think of it as a spontaneous photo-bomb. I love his expression.
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I loved the action! You create a sense of chaos and energy in such a short space of text. I can’t wait for the rest.
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The pacing of that snippet is incredibly fast! Nicely done, Alexis. I think he might have a chance to save his…body parts. 🙂
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