Another busy weekend of cosplaying at Tsubasacon (Edalyn Clawthorne) and then Halloween parties at a cabin in the woods. It was fun but it’s left me scrambling to get this up.

I’m continuing with Behind Blue Eyes and Aneirin and Kaleo have gotten to one of his homes.

Kaleo dropped his chin against his chest. “I didn’t mean…I’m sorry. Guess I don’t know how you live.”

He patted Kaleo’s shoulder. “I’m sure I have misconceptions about slum life as well. We’ll both be learning for the foreseeable future. I think Setak might be the closet fit. She probably won’t mind running home for a set of clothing. Grimoald is a bit wider in the hips than you. We’ll have to find you shoes to borrow.”

“This is a pain for you.” Kaleo sounded apologetic.

Yes it was, Aneirin thought, in so many ways, especially morally. “Pherick isn’t much of a forward thinker. He didn’t think about preparing my house for you.”

Kaleo finally brought his head back up. “Pherick?”

“He’s the one who purchased you. You saw him last night. He’s a good friend but he’s not…how shall I put this? He’s not a deep thinker.”

“Oh, the dumb friend. We all have one of those,” Kaleo agreed. “I figure if you don’t have a dumb friend, you probably are the dumb friend.”

Aneirin snorted, leaning his head into the recess for the retinal scanner. The door opened and he ushered Kaleo in. The young man stopped immediately, his eyes wider and his jaw loosened as he took in the space with its muted, calm color palette and soft, inviting couches.

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The onslaught of job woes and various time sucks continues and I’m lucky to get to this every other week.

I’m switching back to Behind Blue eyes. We left off with Aneirin and Kaleo heading for his home. THey’re just about to one of them.

“I guess. I should have known a fan…a Merchanter would have servants.”

Aneirin didn’t know what word Kaleo had bitten off, but assumed it was some derogatory slum term for the Merchant class. “I have only a few here, more planet side.”

He looked around the shuttle bay. “This isn’t your home?”

“Yes, well it’s my orbital condo. I often stay here when I’m working in the remote lab, but I spend a lot of time planet side as well. Grimoald, my majordomo travels with me. Setak is the maid, though we have servos for much of that and Danil cooks when needed and there is security as well. They all live in the orbital colony but not necessary here in my condo. They are very well paid for it,” Aneirin said, realizing how stiff it sounded.

Kaleo dropped his chin against his chest. “I didn’t mean…I’m sorry. Guess I don’t know how you live.” He patted Kaleo’s shoulder. “I’m sure I have misconceptions about slum life as well. We’ll both be learning for the foreseeable future.

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Here’s me running late again. I was at the Mothman festival all weekend and had a blast.

Here’s my last snippet from A Profession of Hope.

“When Stompin’ Tim said the Jolly Green Giant was dead by my garden, I figured I needed to come home early.”

Kjell beetled up his brow. “Jolly Green….okay I am a green giant but I’m not so sure about the jolly part.”

Sam snorted. “Tim is a huge history buff. That was a marketing mascot in the Before Times.”

“How did Tim even know I was back?” Pointing around Kjell’s right arm, Sam smirked. Kjell’s eyes bugged out seeing a sculpture of metal in the garden that hadn’t been there before. Tim was easily as tall as he was but built like a mountain of granite and his stomping nickname had been well earned. “

Blurb –

FOURTEEN WAYS TO CHANGE THE PLANET

Income inequality is worse than it was in the Roaring Twenties. Corporations are moving fast and breaking things, and the social contract seems to be falling apart, aided by social media disruption and division on steroids.

There has to be a better way.

We asked fourteen sci-fi writers to come up with innovative ways the world could work better. Universal basic income, smaller communities, AI voting, and learning to live in harmony with nature are just a few of the ideas explored inside these pages. So buckle up and settle in for a look at the world of the future.

The world’s not going to transform itself.

Buy Link https://www.otherworldsink.com/book/transform-the-world/

No time to say anything much other than I had the edits to the novel due back today so the weekend was packed with that (and the paranormal but that’s another story)

Have another snippet it from A Profession of Hope

On that contented note, Kjell drifted off. Something warm and wet planted on his cheek woke him up. He smiled.

“Sam.”

“Guess again.”

At Sam’s amused tone, Kjell jolted fully awake just in time to get dog tongue all over his face. He pushed the chocolate lab back fruitlessly as Berry’s tongue flailed frantically in her joy to see him again. He’d been gone forever, after all. “No, Berry! Sto-” The words got cut off as her tongue found his mouth.

“I was going to kiss you hello. Now not so much.” Sam pinched up his features in exaggerated disgust.

“Please, I’ve seen you kiss your dogs on the lips.”

Blurb –

FOURTEEN WAYS TO CHANGE THE PLANET

Income inequality is worse than it was in the Roaring Twenties. Corporations are moving fast and breaking things, and the social contract seems to be falling apart, aided by social media disruption and division on steroids.

There has to be a better way.

We asked fourteen sci-fi writers to come up with innovative ways the world could work better. Universal basic income, smaller communities, AI voting, and learning to live in harmony with nature are just a few of the ideas explored inside these pages. So buckle up and settle in for a look at the world of the future.

The world’s not going to transform itself.

Buy Link https://www.otherworldsink.com/book/transform-the-world/

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I had to take last week off to get the novel edits back and this weekend I was traveling. I spent 18 years not doing anything but sitting in the house over labor day. Last year I asked myself why not do a weekender trip? This time it was Cincinnati and all its museums.

I’m also taking a short break from Aneirin and Kaleo because I have a short story coming out in an anthology so here’s a little taste of my story A Profession of Hope (a solarpunk story set in the same universe I had for the first book in the anthology series)

Kjell Eriksen guided his biofueled motorcycle up to the cabin door. The thought I am home hit him like a Derjvik fist. Home hadn’t even been an idea in his head before coming to what once had been northern Wisconsin; He had never felt at home. In the several months he’d been living in Sam’s cluster of cabins – often more times in Sam’s room than his own cabin – Kjell had finally put down roots. About damn time. You’re part tree after all.

Blurb –

FOURTEEN WAYS TO CHANGE THE PLANET

Income inequality is worse than it was in the Roaring Twenties. Corporations are moving fast and breaking things, and the social contract seems to be falling apart, aided by social media disruption and division on steroids.

There has to be a better way.

We asked fourteen sci-fi writers to come up with innovative ways the world could work better. Universal basic income, smaller communities, AI voting, and learning to live in harmony with nature are just a few of the ideas explored inside these pages. So buckle up and settle in for a look at the world of the future.

The world’s not going to transform itself.

Buy Link https://www.otherworldsink.com/book/transform-the-world/

The Rainbow Snippet group can be found on Facebook. It’s a fun low-pressure snippet sharing group for LGBTQ+ fiction. Come join us. https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets