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Well, my little NaNoWriMo dreams have already burned up in the flames of reality, but as usual it’s due to good things. I’ve received the first round of edits for Curse of Salar, which means the release date is scary soon! Plus, I’ve signed on for a project with a February deadline, so…poor Eli is going to be stuck with the space marines for a while longer. Maybe I’ll end up publishing the whole story in snippets.
Last week, after an exchange of insults, Eli told the man in black about the other slave ship in the hopes the other captives might be rescued. This excerpt is from my space-opera-in-progress, From Mars, With Love.
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The man in black didn’t seem upset about being called a habi-brat. Maybe he’d never even heard the slang, having never set his sanitized feet on the ground.
Eli caught up with the closest marine and grabbed his arm. This earned Eli a smack to the chest that sent him stumbling backwards.
The marine’s voice crackled out of the mic in his helmet, “I heard what you said about the sweeper. I’ll mic it up to Con, but don’t hold your breath; we’ve got bigger fish to fry.”
“Aren’t you supposed to stop slavers?” Eli demanded.
“Yeah, but we’ve got a report on alien smuggling earthside and—”
“That’s classified,” the man in black said sharply. The marine shut up and hurried away.
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I don’t know about you, but I miss all the fun-loving end-of-the-world disasters Colin Ferguson narrowly averted every week on Eureka. (Photo by: David Gray/Syfy)
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Alexis Duran 
I hate it when you deliver a pithy insult and get no reaction from secret agent man. You’d think they’d be more concerned with slavers than smugglers, but it seems that’s classified. 🙂
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Good stuff going for you and well deserved while we continue to enjoy your fab snippets.
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“having never set his sanitized feet on the ground.” < love that. I'm also loving the enigmatic man in black;)
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Oopsie, almost spilling the classified stuff. And the man in black isn’t going to help the slavers?? Bigger fish must be pretty big.
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Sounds like a character who could cause a lot of trouble! It’s no laughing matter for the people it affects, but I love characters who don’t know when to keep their traps shut and say the wrong things to the wrong people.
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Well at least the Marines are uncaring, just have other priorities. I’m really intrigued by the man in black and I’m counting on Eli to find out more! Happy to hear there’s another Salar story coming soonish 🙂 Great snippet today…
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No no, meant the Marines are NOT uncaring. They CARE. They’re good guys. Darn, hit enter too soon.
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WHO is that man in black???
I’m happy for you that Curse of Salar is moving forward in such a hurry. But I’m feeling a little sorry for Eli right about now. 🙂
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Those poor people. It’s never good when you’re small fry, and the people who can help don’t care. Still, intriguing hint about the alien smugglers!
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