Welcome to another round of Weekend Writing Warriors. It’s a hundred jillion degrees here today and my office is the hottest room in the house (surely from all the steamy scenes penned herein) so I’ll make this short and sweet. I’m continuing to share from my erotic m/m space-opera-in-progress, From Mars, With Love. Last week the slave ship in which Eli is held captive came under attack. Alas, have the marines arrived too late to save Eli? (I know you’re on pins and needles about this.) Here’s last week’s post. One of these days I’ll assemble them all on this website so those who are interested can catch up.
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The flexi-steel walls of the ship shuddered. The bot’s eyeball light went out and it crashed to the floor.
“Well, isn’t that a fine—” the asteroider wrung his hands, frozen with indecision.
“Hostile Boarding Protocol – Level One,” the loudspeaker crackled. The asteroider spun around and with a flick of his fingers, erased the stream of data about the ring. The screen flashed DELETED and disappeared. He then scrambled around the pod, detached Eli’s wrist, shoved his arm in the pod and slammed the lid shut. Eli heard the hiss of the seal and immediately began to pull at the wires attaching him to the machine. He wanted to be awake for this, and most of all, he didn’t want to lie there helpless a second longer.
There was no release mechanism inside the pod, all the more irritating when it started to fill with gelatinous goo.
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Hang on, Eli. Sexy help is on the way!
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Alexis Duran 
I sure hope help is on the way. Exciting snippet.
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Oh God! You LOVE leaving us hanging on cliffs!
And I like the pic of Rico! That’s a great movie–in a shallow kind of way. 🙂
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A lot of action here. I wish you’d posted a blurb too.
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That’s a splendid idea, Cara. Next time for sure.
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Poor Eli! It’s just one thing after another. And I have a feeling the goo is not there for his comfort. 🙂
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Being suspended in goo might be comfortable if you’re properly hooked in to the life support system, but he’s not.
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Oops, he’s stuck! I’d hate the confined space.
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Ewwwe! Gelatinous goo?! I have trouble breathing right now. Great scene filled with tension and excitement. I can’t wait to find out what happens next.
Lol, Starship Troopers?!;)
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Yup. A bit heavy on the bug guts for my taste, but the showers scenes make it all worth it.
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Oh, no… seems like this bad guy isn’t taking chances. Also, doesn’t sound like a fun experience… kinda squishy.
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Oh wow, I don’t like the sound of this. Not at all. Love the depiction of the bot deactivating. Great snippet…thanks for braving the jillion-degree heat to post it! (Hasn’t it been awfully oppressive this week?)
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I’m getting the impression the asteroider might be a robot. Am I right? And I empathize about the heat–I live in southern Arizona.
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The asteroider is an altered human with robotic parts- so close. Yeah, we’re almost hot enough so people from the southwest don’t scoff when we complain about how hot is.
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That’s a frightening predicament to be in! He’ll need some extra-special help to escape that alive and in one piece.
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I hope I get to read what happens next? Next week same time? 🙂
Very exciting snippet!
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Oh DEAR, bad to worse but what an excellent scene and it sounds like we’re all thoroughly hooked on the story. I know I am! More, please!
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Yep, from bad to worse. I have to see this through. Be back next week. 🙂
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