About Me

My photo
Author of queer, wry sci fi/fantasy books. On Amazon.
Editor of all fiction genres.

Saturday 21 June 2014

Starry Nights: A Science Fiction Romance Brigade Midsummer Blog Hop!





Hello hello! 

Today I have a bit of a treat--a snippet from After the Garden, my next work, written specially for the hop!
***

Ember squinted up at the stars, her eyes widening to take in the light. The sky hadn't been so clear in several hundred years. She remembered looking up at them in her last life, how faint they'd been back then. 

Kerrick coughed. "This'll sound strange, but I almost miss them being harder to see," he said quietly. 

Across the fire, Chris and Eva were talking quietly, paying no attention to them. Ember smiled, feeling old for a moment. 

"Me too. We went up there once, you know. Hundreds of years ago now. Shame we never got past the moon, really."

"What do you think happened to the people up there?"

"In the colony? Oh, they died."

He nodded. "I thought so." 

The silence felt heavier for a moment. Ember edged closer to him and poked at the dying embers. A burst of flame from her fingertips reignited them for a moment. Kerrick smiled a little to himself. 

"Well, we're still alive. Not just us. All of us. Humanity," she said, straightening. 

"So? We're alive, but we're barely back on our feet. We've lost hundreds of years."

"It's still not too late," she maintained. "We could go back."

"To the moon?"
"Farther. We could get past it."

Glittering overhead, the stars made no reply. She could see the doubt on his face, but she smiled. 

"Can you see it?" Kerrick avoided her eyes. She knew what that meant, but a stupid, fluttering thing inside her couldn't help fighting it. After all, they were still alive.

"No, not that far into the future. It only works on people I know. But..." she poked the fire again, this time with a branch. "I can't see, but I can hope."

***

Guess what? The Underlighters is part of the giveaway package for the Starry Night contest! 




***

You can catch more by checking out the following links.
Twitter





*****
Thanks for dropping by the nest once again. Don't miss any of the phuquerie. Find Michelle on TwitterFacebook, and on Tumblr, and find her work on Amazon. Check back on the blog to see when one of the irregular posts has careened onto your feed. This is the one and only SciFiMagpie, over and out! 

15 comments:

  1. Hi, Michelle! I love your writing. You are one of my very favorite authors. michelle_willms at yahoo dot com.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Interesting setup, Michelle. As a lover of sly puns, I enjoyed that Ember stirred up dying embers!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Wishing you new readers for the hop! :D

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thanks, everyone! After the Garden will be out this summer.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Lovely snippet. Well written and intriguing.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Intriguing set up. You have me wondering what'll happen.

    Anna
    doxisrcool at aol.com

    ReplyDelete
  7. Oooo, this looks great. Looking forward to more!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Fun snippet! Thanks for posting it.

    ReplyDelete
  9. squeee! So looking forward to this book. If I prod you, will it come faster?

    ReplyDelete
  10. Very intriguing, left me with lots of questions I want answered!

    ReplyDelete
  11. I loved that excerpt! And now I want to know what happened :)

    ReplyDelete
  12. Hi all! Just to let you know, ATG will be out at month's end. This scene now appears at the beginning of Within the Tempest, the next book in The Bearer Legacy.

    ReplyDelete

As always, be excellent unto others, and don't be a dick.

Google+