Friday, July 5, 2013

Snips And Snails #4

     
   

          Hi all!  Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend and for those of us in the U.S., having a great Fourth of July celebration filled with barbecues, fireworks, and family fun.  What goes better with summer holidays that a heaping dose of science fiction and fantasy and what better place to get your fill than over at Science Fiction Fantasy Saturday?!  Make sure you stop by and check out all the great authors who post their work at SciFiFanSat.blogspot.com.  This week’s snippet for me comes from a short story, Snips And Snails, which explores how we view fear as society evolves.  In the previous snippets, we met up with a captive monster and found out his captor was a small boy and his closet the creature’s prison.  This week, we have the first real interaction between the two.

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          “Its high moon, bloodling, and one your age should be in slumber.”
           Oblivious to the creature’s reprimand, the boy dragged him across the room.          
           “Don’t be such a wuss.  Come on, I want to show you something.”
          Wild patches of hair sprouted up and down the creature’s arms, legs, and shoulders with a long black tuft banded behind its head.  Well-muscled and scarred arms hung down to its knees with leather strappings wrapped around each wrist and across the bare orange skin of its chest.  A massively wide head, home to two rows of sharpened teeth, frowned as the mismatched duo stopped near the boy’s computer.
          “Didn’t I tell you boys don’t wear dresses?”
          The creature stared down at the animal skin wrapped around its waist and bound at the center with a blackened snake skull that had been passed down to him from his father.

          “It is more of a kilt, bloodling.”

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          I hope you enjoyed the snippet and comments are always welcome and appreciated.            

16 comments:

  1. I love the interaction between the two of them! Very believable.

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    1. Thanks Pippa. It was fun taking it from a more visual form with dialogue to text. Glad you liked it.

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  2. Yes! For heaven's sake, never call a kilt a dress!

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    1. Oyyy! Especially a four hundred pound creature from the netherworld.

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  3. That kid's lucky the creature isn't Scottish!

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    1. I somehow don't think he'd care, Patrick, but the story may have ended a lot sooner.

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  4. Haha!! Nice. I love this. I wonder if he's wearing anything under the kilt... o.O

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    1. Ha. Even closet monsters need to have their share of secrets.

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  5. Wonder what the kid's found on the computer.

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    1. That should hit by the next snippet. Stay tuned. Appreciate the comments, Sue.

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  6. "Bloodling" needs to realize that kilts are the height of fashion. You can tell him I said so!

    Great snippet. I really enjoyed it.

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  7. Ha. Thanks! Maybe he's checking out a fashion website and wants to share the do's and don't's of what to wear next season. Yeah. Probably not.

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  8. Great snippet! Love the description, especially "Well-muscled and scarred arms hung down to its knees with leather strappings wrapped around each wrist and across the bare orange skin of its chest." I also loved the line about boys not wearing dresses. I can't wait to read more.

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  9. Thanks, Nicole. I've always been fond of this story. Glad everyone is enjoying it. I really appreciate the comments.

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  10. Wow, a lot of great detail in this snippet. A very visual look at the two of them moving across this little boy's room--greatly appreciated as the image in my head didn't do the story justice. I don't know what the young man has planned, but it'll be great to see how the monster reacts, as he seems to be fine with humoring him.

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  11. It's a definite surprise. I hope. We'll see how far the creature's limits can be tested. Thanks, Jalisa!

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