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A Blade in the Dark is off to Suvudu's writing contest.

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"Identity Theft": 545 words
BEGINNING LINE: Maybe, she thought, this was what an attack of conscience looked like.
FAVORITE LINE: "I keep telling that no-good husband of mine he needs to shred the mail. Those garbage collectors go through your mail and apply for cards, and then you have to go to the trouble of filing a police report. And of ( Read more... )

"Identity Theft": 530 words
BEGINNING LINE: She froze.
FAVORITE LINE: Sarah Joy Townsend. DOB 5-14-1958. Eyes: Brown. Hair: Brown. Height: 5'5 Weight: 210 Lbs. The license showed an address in ? Cute info dump, reading the driver's license.
ENDING LINE: Except she was, inexplicably, Sarah Townsend.

Blade in the Dark: edited chapter 4/31 ( Read more... )

"Identity Theft": 500 words
BEGINNING LINE: While it brewed, she looked in the fridge for some milk.
FAVORITE LINE: If she was going to dream a litterbox, why wouldn't she dream a cat?
ENDING LINE: "Am I speaking with Sarah Townsend?" asked a male voice at the other end.

"Storm-Witch": initial edit

Blade in the Dark: edited chapter 3/31 ( Read more... )

"Identity Theft": 509 words
BEGINNING LINE: She was shaking as she slipped into the single bed; she couldn't imagine managing to sleep.
FAVORITE LINE: Two pressboard shelves that looked like they'd come straight from the eighties held a collection of paperbacks; a third stood empty.
ENDING LINE: A few moments later, the scent of coffee started to ( Read more... )

"Identity Theft": 520 words
BEGINNING LINE: Ellen opened her eyes to find herself in a strange room.
FAVORITE LINE: She'd experimented in college -- who hadn't -- but she'd discovered she preferred dudes.
ENDING LINE: "When I wake up, I'll be back in my own bed, in my own body, and I'll go out and have a latte and forget all about it."
A Blade in ( Read more... )

Giving Red: 513
Beginning Line: He froze in place, feeling as if he'd been caught.
Favorite Line: "Why should you be sorry?" Thorn asked. "You're one of them. If I believed anything else, I was only deluding myself."
Ending Line: The sooner he returned to Port-Ailish and turned Thorn and his men over to Governor WHATSISNAME, the better.wtd ( Read more... )

Giving Red: 506
Beginning Line: Junett was trembling as he emerged from his cabin.
Favorite Line: "We are not barbarians, that we would deny our prisoners care," he said, despite the voice in his mind that whispered exactly the opposite. He had read some philosophy, though it was not considered advisable; PHILOSOPHER had said that the measure of ( Read more... )

Giving Red: 1,018 words
Beginning Line: But the idea that Junett would be taking him to his doom once again brought a bittersweet twist of irony to the whole affair.
Favorite Line: "Our shipmates are in trouble!" she called. "Your friends and mine, the men we've served with for months -- sometimes years. The very men we've stood shoulder-to- ( Read more... )