Hi folks, welcome back to Sunday Sundries where I talk about whatever’s on my mind. Today, I’ve got a book review for you: Snake Charming by Genevieve McCluer. Full disclosure: I received Snake Charming as a digital ARC from the publisher. I’ve read, and reviewed, McCluer before (in fact if you pick it up you’ll …
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Storytime: Chaos (Blur #19 – Final!)
Dyl and Wyn swung their heads around, trying to let their mounted cameras take in everything. To them, it was a chaotic kaleidoscope of green and black, red and orange; the sounds of battle booming and roaring in their ears. On the one hand, their plan to take on the creatures was a non-starter as, …
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Storytime: Meeting the Managers (Blur 18)
Dyl, Wyn, and Vuuk navigate a desolate cityscape to join forces with two other teams and their unique abilities for a critical reconnaissance mission. Time to meet the Managers…
Storytime: Enemies (Blur #17)
Storytime! Janice has to rely on the trust of her people, as the second set of interdimensional creatures emerges. Orders go out to a scared and scattered crowd, as Aurax thinks back to how it got where it is now.
Storytime: And Below (Blur #16)
Check the Blur page for all previous installments. After last time, our rebels had some pretty steep odds…but what can you throw at appendages from the sky that melt everything their oily liquid touches? One by one, the city’s buildings and streets collapsed into the sewers and tunnels. The sewers and tunnels ran with greasy …
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Prompt Short Story: As Above (Blur #15)
The night slowly ran towards a new day, and finally all of the rebel cells were in place. Two had dropped out of contact, considered lost, but in all it was better than JAnice had expected. She and the others holding everyone together breathed a relieved sigh as the final static spurt came in, announcing …
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Prompt Short Story: Almost Time (Blur #14)
Kat looked around the control room and gripped Kaitlin’s hand in hers. The twins were asleep in soft beds, with Blake in a room next to them doing the same, all having eaten themselves into a coma. Allen was deep in conversation with one of the techies, while Kat sat awkwardly in a corner, feeling …
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Prompt Short Story: Preparing (Blur #13)
Aroth slid the envelope of ribbon-tied locks of human hair to Pica, who nodded slightly and continued on its way, bronzed arms and legs eating up ground. Fixing its own lock of hair to its chest, Aroth strolled back inside the warehouse, walking as if it was taking a stroll. Becca glanced up, briefly catching …
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Prompt Short Story: Free (Blur #12)
Dylan lay by Wyn, both in their own hospital beds, one eye on hir, and the other on her phone, showing a live feed from the cell where Vuuk still slept. The hi-def feed showed the knife and bullet wounds Vuuk had sustained before the stronger gas had knocked it out for good. The creature …
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Prompt Short Story: Control (Blur 11)
Dylan watched the cameras as Vuuk slept peacefully on the cot. It had been well fed and watered, and was happy to be moved to a more secure cell. In fact it was so concerned about the cobtrol trigger that it had asked for a mao to learn, and all corridors to be ckeared, before …
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