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I’m continuing on with excerpts from my erotic m/m space opera, From Mars, With Love, because I can’t face abandoning Eli to his fate just yet. Last week he woke up to find his desperate escape attempt had failed and he was in one of the stasis pods of the slave ship. An asteroider and security bot are discussing his ring, which is giving out some odd readings.
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“That’s an alien living on his finger?”
“Don’t gossip, Dwar, you know how easy it is to get this crew into a panic. Now key up the spectrometer readout.”
An alien? That was crazy, but anything that kept them from cutting off his finger was a good thing, bullshit or not. Eli rolled his head to the other side, noticed they’d removed the last of his clothes and that his skin on the right side looked a little funny.
“The flash burns are nearly healed, I see.” The robotic voice came from a security crab hovering much too close, propulsion jets heating Eli’s exposed flesh.
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Because gals like to have fun in space with guns too. Let’s just hope Eli’s alien isn’t quite so slimy.
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Alexis Duran 
Why thank you for not leaving us in suspense! Very kind of you. 🙂 I do love the idea of the bots gossiping as they work. I was briefly distracted by thought of naked Eli, then worried about the crab possibly doing unspeakable things to him.
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an alien on his finger? LOL. Made me think of Men in Black and poor Will Smith as he was learning how to be an agent
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Oh, no! He’s really in trouble now… unless the alien on his finger makes him be sold to someone who won’t be quite so bad… or maybe not get sold at all…
The big question: what does the alien do?
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I’m anxious to know what happens next. Scary scene you’ve painted for the reader. Good eight!
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What a teaser! An alien in his ring.
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Now I’m even more curious about that ring! Excellent excerpt, I’m very fond of Eli by now, cant wait for more adventure.
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BS or not! I like that. Too bad the blog isn’t #10Sunday! Stopped right in the middle, nice hook.
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Gasped! So an alien was on his mother’s ring, huh? This is getting better and better. Well done on the plot and suspense!
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Love the strange turn of events about Eli’s ring. Very intriguing.
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I guess I could grovel–to have you continue with this one. You are awesome at writing scifi/space opera! And I have to tell you that I did laugh out loud when I read that you couldn’t abandon Eli to his captors yet. 🙂
Excellent snippet, Alexis!
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Delightfully quirky. You’ve picqued my curiosity.
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He’s not giving up and figuring all the angles every time the game changes. He rocks!!
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Oh my, that is super-intriguing! I really, really want to know what happens next and what this ring really is. Fabulous 8.
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