Welcome to another round of Weekend Writing Warriors. I was going to move on to a new story, but I decided that considering where I left off last week, that would just be mean. I’m sure you’re all curious to know how Eli’s escape attempt turned out. This is from my erotic space opera in progress, From Mars, With Love.
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Reluctantly, Eli opened his eyes. A crushing wave of disappointment washed over him. He was in a pod, or half a pod, anyway. They hadn’t sealed him in yet. He tried to move but found his arms and legs weighed about a thousand kilos each. His left arm was stretched out along a metal plate, his wrist held in a vice and a microscope was trained on his pinky finger. Blue and red scan lines rippled across his mother’s ring.
“Until we discover the nature of the object, no alterations will be made to the host.”
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So now you know. Sorry. Here is a pretty picture to alleviate your pain.
Okay, it’s an arrow, not a gun and to be honest, I don’t even know Hawkeye’s backstory. SF or fantasy? But do we really care?
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Alexis Duran 
Phew! Out of the fire into the frying pan! I am very pleased you carried on with this storyline. I have to confess to wanting (a lot!) to find out what happens to him and why they want his ring.
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Excellent! My evil plan is working.
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And I thought only your story is evil, Alexis. No champagne for you or howling at the moon with me. How much is the ring?
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Wow! Love the whole scene of his awakening surprise to his mother’s ring. So many questions. Hawkeye’s image was a nice visual touch. 🙂
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Argh! That was really mean. 😝 I guess I can take comfort from “no alterations.” Yet.
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So happy to have another excerpt from this story, glad there are to be no alterations to poor Eli for the time being at least. I hope we get to read the whole thing at some point, keep us posted, ok? Excellent snippet…
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I’m glad Eli got out of harm’s way for the moment, though that’s still not a very happy place to be at. He’s still got a long way to go to be back in freedom.
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love this snippet. Jeremy Rinner is hawkeye in the movie, right? I cant recall and youre right. With that pic, who cares. LOL
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Jeremy Renner. Looked it up. He is a cutie.
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Ha! Charmaine is not sharing her champagne with you! (Her comment made me chuckle).
Excellent snippet, Alexis. And thank you for not letting us hanging. I want to read this book!
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