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Last Line/First Line
Stealing this from @ruinmegently, because it's quite brilliant. Here's the first line and last line of Monsters and Fools, the recently-finished neo-noire in a post-apoc underground city:
“What’s that, Mom?” He pointed at the sky. “Pick me up! I wanna see!”
Last line:
Wait—that can’t be— Nathu?
Tagging in!
@enne-uni @isabellebissonrouthier @acertainmoshke @meerawrites @obviousknife @dreadpirateroe @fleurtygurl @feuervogel @shagtastickid @thechaoscryptid
Last Sentence Tag
@dyrewrites got me, so here you are - the last thing I wrote from The Foundling City, book 3 of the Nightmare Cycle trilogy! Book 1 is here or here.
But my tongue feels thick, and my throat is tight, and instead of going off to talk to someone, I need to go sit still and have a panic attack for a while.
Tagging in: @squarebracket-trick @writernopal @mrbexwrites @digitalsatyr23 @aziz-reads
Heads Up, 7 Up/9 Lines, 9 Souls
@writernopal got me after I'd tagged them a few times, and they combined their segments - so I decided to cheat and do the same! 16 lines, 16 tags.
This comes from Monsters and Fools, the recently-completed sequel to The Underlighters. If a post-apoc neo-noire about leftism and civic politics grabs your interest, hit me up! I need beta readers.
SPOILERS AHOY!
Two thousand, three hundred and five people—thank you, Sammie, for crunching the numbers—are going Up with us. Turns out, when you return people’s Lost family members, even if they’re Sandmen now, they’d rather leave the city than lose their loved ones again. It feels so agonizingly painful to be angry at the city I’ve spent so long loving, adoring, being annoyed at. This is my home. Was, I guess. It’s amazing how much the past tense hurts. We’re in the elevator now, going Up for the last time. We’re some of the last people coming up here—Una was focused on getting everyone else handled, either topside or in the Heaven Tubes, and so I was I. Any minute now, the doors will open, and we’ll see the darkness of a frosty December night; snow sparkling under the full moon. Snow scares me, but it’s so pretty, I can’t even handle it. The doors will open, and soon, we’ll be walking through them, and out into the night—towards the house we’re staying in. Hopefully, it’s not in terrible shape. I didn’t get a chance to pick it out myself. We sent a survey team up to inspect them and choose the most structurally sound ones. This is it. The moment I say goodbye to my old life, and it all becomes real.
Tagging in!
@holdmyteaplease @transroboteeveegirl @ventela1 @aughtpunk @sabotabby @chiefwritesbook @jpohlmanwriting @kay-orc-blog @zillanovikov @alnaperera @greyisbetterthangray @steh-lar-uh-nuhs @bluberimufim @squarebracket-trick @writernopal @mrbexwrites @digitalsatyr23
10 first lines, 10 people
Okay, so this is the first line from any ten chapters in your WIP. I'm not done The Foundling City yet, so I'll use Monsters and Fools, which is technically (!) done, at about 90K words. Book 1 is available here.
If you're into an underground sorta-magical post-apoc neo-noire focusing on leftist politics and featuring polyamory, hit me up! I need beta readers.
Chapter 1:
“What’s that, Mom?” He pointed at the sky. “Pick me up! I wanna see!”
Chapter 4:
New Years’ is almost here, and you wouldn’t even know it.
Chapter 5:
It’s been a really quiet holiday season.
Chapter 8:
You would not believe the amount of shit I’ve had to deal with in the last two days.
Chapter 14:
I feel like I’m being stalked by my own brain demons.
Chapter 23:
I got my notice on Friday that I was supposed to go back to the IIB and interface primarily with Sandmen again, and I had barely gotten settled today when I ended up with a pile of crap on my plate.
Chapter 25:
The city is in mourning—and on lockdown.
Chapter 37:
We’ve arranged meetings with the leaders of the Sandmen’s family groups.
Chapter 42:
The problem with dream-shaping a bed, blankets, and pillows is that they’re usually Dust by morning, and I wake up on my back or my side, all achy.
Chapter 45:
Yesterday was the Night of Masks.
Hit me up or check out these other authors!
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Last Sentence Tag
@dyrewrites got me, so here you go! Spoilers for Monsters and Fools, the sequel to The Underlighters.
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And now the city is fucked.
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Tagging in! @greyisbetterthangray @steh-lar-uh-nuhs @bluberimufim @mrbexwrites @digitalsatyr23 @aziz-reads
9 lines, 9 people tag game
@palebdot, @dyrewrites, and @mrbexwrites all tagged me in this, and I'm a glutton, so I'm going to do three posts with different authors and different excepts each time!
So, here it is, another, final snippet from Monsters and Fools, my WIP that's a sequel to The Underlighters.
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Lifting her tea, she inhaled the fragrant steam and blew it towards me gently with a slight grin. “I’ve been busy.” She gestured to another tattoo on her right forearm. I saw what looked like an hourglass—full of sand, of course—but where it had broken open, flowers were growing from the grains spread across her skin, and a small tree was even blossoming. A small mole sat among the grass and new flowers, looking comfortable. In the tree perched a crow.
She peered at me. I blinked at it for a moment, and got a full-on lump in my throat as I thought about the symbolism. “I love it.”
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And just for good measure, here's another nine tags! @thechaoscryptid @cd-covington @dreadpirateroe @fleurtygurl @aziz-reads @ruinmegently @stesierra @cheeto-flavoured-pasta @blackcrxwking
Incorrect Quotes (Nightmare Cycle Edition)
So - I don't really know how to play this game, but @bluberimufim tagged me - so I'm going to do a variation. You can get book 1, The Underlighters, here or here. If you're into underground post-apoc horror novels featuring polyamory and queerness, hit me up!
These are memes that encapsulate characters' current mental states, as of The Foundling City: Janelle:
Una (her wife):
Nathu (their husband):
Tagging for incorrect quotes!
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Heads Up, 7 Up
This comes from book 3 of the Nightmare Cycle - oooOOoOOh, more sequel stuff! Janelle is angsting over the consequences of her decisions after the explosive finale of book 2 (which isn't out yet, but is with beta readers!)
I feel so young, and so unprepared, and so starkly terrified.
And yet, somehow, a couple thousand people trust me to know stuff and organize things for them. And I’ve got serious administrative credentials and experience.
As long as nobody figures out I’m careening from moment to moment, or that I’m just doing my best as I go, I guess it’ll be all right.
Gods, I wish I could talk to Nathu about all this. I just wish I even knew where to start. But my tongue feels thick, and my throat is tight, and instead of going off to talk to someone, I need to go sit still and have a panic attack for a while.
*** Tagging in: @pinkchaosart @omokers @dyrewrites @pb-dot @holdmyteaplease @transroboteeveegirl @ventela1
