Hey folks! Not participated in SFFSat for a little while so thought I should come back to the family, as it were.
Today, I'm letting you have a ten-sentence sneaky peek at Book 2 in the Quality Times series, titled 'The Grandparent Trap.'
Brief Blurby Bit - The elderly are going missing in a small English town. A new bus company, Journey's End, has started operating in the area. The missing were all last seen boarding the buses, but never reached their destination. Who are the mysterious folk behind the Journey's End and what do they want with the town's pensioners? Intergalactic space and time adventurers, Quality and Tim, vow to find out. It's still in first draft form so except the sentences to be poorly-executed. I'm all about getting the story down when it comes to first drafts.
He pressed his face against the glass, desperately looking for anyone that could help him get out of there. Wiping the steamed-up window, he could make out a row of glass coffins opposite him. There were people inside those, too. At least, he assumed they were people. 'Hello?' he tried. 'Hello?' 'Ssh,' came a muffled voice to his right. 'Or they'll hear you.'
Ach, okay, not quite ten sentences but I do like to leave you on a cliff-hanger, sort of. :D
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Brief Blurby Bit - The elderly are going missing in a small English town. A new bus company, Journey's End, has started operating in the area. The missing were all last seen boarding the buses, but never reached their destination. Who are the mysterious folk behind the Journey's End and what do they want with the town's pensioners? Intergalactic space and time adventurers, Quality and Tim, vow to find out. It's still in first draft form so except the sentences to be poorly-executed. I'm all about getting the story down when it comes to first drafts.
He pressed his face against the glass, desperately looking for anyone that could help him get out of there. Wiping the steamed-up window, he could make out a row of glass coffins opposite him. There were people inside those, too. At least, he assumed they were people. 'Hello?' he tried. 'Hello?' 'Ssh,' came a muffled voice to his right. 'Or they'll hear you.'
Ach, okay, not quite ten sentences but I do like to leave you on a cliff-hanger, sort of. :D
Click HERE to ready some superb SFFSat snippets from fellow authors.
I'm a bit weirded out by the being in a glass coffin bit.
ReplyDeleteHope you're not weirded out too much. :D
DeleteI definitely get a Doctor Who vibe from this. Great snippet!
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't intentional but fab! :D
DeleteDefinitely a great snippet...nothing worse than waking up inside a glass coffin.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the reminder...I'd downloaded a copy of The Quality Times, and hadn't yet loaded it onto my Nook. Fixed now. ;-)
No, I wouldn't fancy waking up in one!
DeleteHope you enjoy the book. :D
Intriguing snippet. I'm looking forward to seeing how this develops. It's already on my TBR list. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks JC. I'm almost finished the first draft (should be done today) so expect the book out before the end of the year. :)
DeleteIs he in a glass coffin, or is it the bus window he's looking out of?
ReplyDeleteHe's also in an upright glass coffin. I'll have to make it more clearer in the second draft. :)
Delete"Shh...or they'll hear you." ACK!! I'm looking forward to this story!! Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks, TK. :D
DeleteOh, interesting. It makes me wonder who he is being warned about - others in the coffins or "someone else"!
ReplyDeleteEerie. I would be wanting someone to hear me if I were trapped in a coffin. What's coming can't be good.
ReplyDeleteOoh - that's never good, glass coffins and such. Exciting stuff!
ReplyDeleteOh, how creepy! But it creates a cool image with the glass coffins. It would be chilling to hear someone might hear you and having no idea who they are, but that they might be putting you into one of the glass coffins soon.
ReplyDeleteVery Snow White ;)
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