Tuesday Tidbit!
Howdy, Junctionworlders!
Real life is killing me, but my hopes are brightened by the upcoming release of Breakthrough: Junctionworld Book 2.
Book releases are always a heady rush for a creature of ego like myself. ;)
Anyway, Sunday Snippet slipped, and is now Tuesday Tidbit, for this week, anyway.
Here's a short segment from Book 2, introducing a new character named Shoby, a young shepherdess trying to defend her village.
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She broke open the action of her simple
firearm, pulling the spent shell out with her manipulators while feeding in
another, like her mother taught her.
One mech made a clumsy turn in her
direction. It fired a cannon from a
turret mounted to its top side, the recoil rocking it back on its four spindly
legs. The ballistic round split the air
as it passed high over her, exploding far in the distance behind her.
Shoby shifted her scope’s aim. An electronic sensor on the attacking mech’s
turret section burst into flames as her second shot found it across the
distance. Smiling in satisfaction behind
her mask, she reached for a third cartridge as she opened the rifle’s breech.
Another mech, shaped more like a humanoid
with large jets on its armored backpack, turned its attention from razing the
village. It brought up a large rifle in
its giant hands. The end of the
cylindrical weapon glowed a painful green color. The air around her grew hot as the laser
painted her location with a wide, floodlight-like beam.
The tractor tire next to her sizzled, then
burst into flames. The glowing front
section of the vehicle melted as the laser focused into a coherent beam the
thickness of her fist. There was a boom,
and another explosive round from the first mech hit short of her position,
kicking up dirt from the field all around her.
She needed to move.
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Here's that pre-order link. Tell your friends.
Enjoy!
Best,
Bear
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