Sneak peek of still unnamed novella =)
I've been working on a little something for a sci-fi romance anthology. It's almost done, which is a good thing since it's due in a couple of weeks. Here's the (unpolished) beginning. Does it sound interesting?
Rhodesia’s heart thumped in her chest.
People could probably hear it in the next city.
She forced a breath into aching lungs and kept a hand over
her mouth to stifle the sound of an explosive exhalation. Hiding behind a tree
was hardly sufficient, even if the trunk was wide enough to cover a two-person
hovercraft, but she had to catch her
breath.
Were they still on her tail?
Probably. And they
wouldn’t be tired.
Maybe she should just give up and submit to the conversion.
No place was safe, she had nowhere to run to, and perishing alone in the forest
might be worse than turning into one of them.
A beautiful sound drifted down from the branches above her
head. One of the indigenous birds sang. Happy, joyful, and defiant.
Through her adolescence teachers talked about the old world
and life on a planet called Earth. She never understood why it was important,
not until now when her own life was in shambles. Remembering the past might be
more valuable than she ever realized.
Birds on Earth were allegedly different than here, but it
was hard to believe such a preposterous statement. Flying animals should look
the same everywhere.
She remembered a photo of a feathered creature with an
extraordinary beak. It hadn’t even been a holograph; the picture was two
dimensional, and so old the color had faded. Pelican. It had been called a
Pelican.
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