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Oh This Is Gonna Be Good
It’s been a little while since I posted anything, but I promise I have a good excuse! Three, actually.
- I’ve finished the first draft of a sci-fi m/m story I wrote about a little while ago that I’m calling A Healing Touch. It’s under the word count I wanted and a little out of focus right now, so I’m going to dive back in as soon as I catch my breath. There’s a recovery period, you see.
- My editor sent me her thoughts on Forever Mal. Again, it’s a first draft that needs more oomph, so I’ll be diving back into that soon too. It’s been a while since I was in that world — I’ve been in space (see #1) — which will require a refresher course in the form of reading My Summer of Wes and a boatload of notes for me to become Mal again.
- I’m working on 2 projects for submission calls. One is for a gay-for-you anthology in which a retired widower notices his recently divorced neighbor in eye-opening ways in a short I’m calling Different Is Good. The other is a cross between Batman and 007 who’s trying to clean up the city and resist a bad guy whose very name brings this warrior to his knees every damn time that I’m calling Moon Eye’s Angel.
An Old Favorite
Lately, I’ve been working on a story that was originally going to be my Masters degree thesis. It is still untitled 9 years later and, as it was when it fell out of favor as my thesis, it is also still unfinished. The basic premise is that a NASA shuttle commander, pilot, and 3 astronauts are on their way back to Earth from a colony on Mars when a heretofore undiscovered wormhole in space flings them to the other side of the universe. My Universe, as I’ve come to think of this place. Two of those astronauts don’t make it out of the first chapter, and that left me with 3 people whose lives are suddenly stripped of damn near everything they’ve ever known. A day isn’t even called a day anymore–how can it be universal when your planet might spin at an entirely different rate of speed than mine and around a different sun?
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I’ve seen a few publishers asking for more science fiction, so I called up all my notes and dove into My Universe again. The first thing I had to do was reacquaint myself with my victims characters. Story One stars Xander O’Keefe, commander of my little, lost shuttle called Poseidon. Xander fights the aliens that catch Poseidon way too much and is given a drug that makes him blind. He makes the acquaintance of a friendlier young alien and they attempt escape, but that only results in Xander getting the hell beat out of him. Luckily for him, yet another alien named Cyd rin Leedo is there to both heal and rescue poor Xander. Cyd’s blue with orange eyes, completely hairless, and has gills on his back because his people spend most of their time underwater. He can also heal you by using his own energy to speak to yours. Oh, and he’s a part-time spy.
