Ashe Elton Parker

One day, all the stray cats in the neighborhood gathered at the local park and sat down to gaze into the sky.

She could have resigned herself to her future, but she chose to claim it as her own choice instead, and thereby became something more than a footnote in history.

Everyone looked forward to the tinker’s visit, because he always brought news from neighboring communities, but the news he brought this time was the worst it could possibly have been.

Deb, that sentence reminded me of a SF sleuth of mine who uses a cane due to an old injury. I’ve forgotten his name, but remember him as a bit of a character – he accepts a job on the moon, where the various gov’ts of Earth have agreed that they have no jurisdiction, so it’s a real mixed bag of a place to live, inhabited by the desperate in some…[Read more]

LOL Balthamus! That made me chuckle.

Today’s first line:

Faced with a vast array of potions, concoctions, and other bespelled liquids, Hanna couldn’t decide what to start with.

A cackle woke Hada Vi, and he rolled out of bed in an instant.

The sounds of soft hiccups punctuated the cicada-song at odd intervals as dried leaves rustled, telling Kai Something was out there even though neither tree limbs nor shrubs moved with the unknown being’s passage.

At first, Marista thought things couldn’t have started off any worse . . . and then everything completely collasped.

They told him that his bitterness and discontent could be eradicated, but he didn’t believe them, so he became the person he was today–and Lorinia had to find a way to end his tyranny.

And a variation on my sentence above:

Sometimes, the one thing gotten rid of could not be discarded, and Tarla was burdened with just such a personage.

Sometimes, the one thing wanted gotten rid of could not be discarded, and Tarla had just such an item.

Thanks, it’s one of my better lines, if I do say so myself. LOL