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Writing Projects: Fiction :: Nonfiction
Fiction Excerpt: RIVER OF STARS
Science Fiction/Fantasy, 95K words
The daylight city was dead.
Skyscrapers and neon, a dark metropolis came to life and delivered Jana Romany into exile.
"We’re breaking mission protocol." She yanked up her sleeves.
Tang of alcohol, stab of a needle in each arm. The medtech hooked Jana up to the cell separator that would filter and replace her blood plasma.
"You know a better way to avoid detection?"
"Without the Kinship nanomarkers, we're off the grid," she said. "If anything goes wrong--"
"Domitian will spot the markers, Jana, and then we're dead anyway." Rodrik slapped microderm patches on his own IV nicks. "You can reinject when this is over."
He smiled and kissed her, a quick slide of tongue over lip. Jana never could say no to Rodrik. "Enjoy the freedom for a change."
The medtech glanced at them and Rodrik shot sharp dark eyes back at him. "I gave you enough stim to keep your mouth shut permanently. Do you understand?"
The tech nodded, but Rodrik's reassurances didn't make Jana feel any better. She didn't expect her partner to understand. He'd enlisted to escape his family while she joined to find hers.
"You know I'm right." His voice so low it felt like deep water. The warmth of his breath caressed her ear. "It's the only way this op will work."
She'd trust him one more time, just one. |
