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November 16, 2020
#New release Vengeance Island
[image error]There it was, the island of Gozo, smaller than many British cities, but set like a jewel in a caerulean sea under a near-permanently blue sky. What a fantasy island for rain and grey-soaked Brits and the complications of having to fly to Malta first then a ferry hop to Gozo just added to the charm and helps keep it less busy than its neighbours.
However, such beauty belies a horrendous past. In 1551 the entire population of around 5,000 were snatched by Ottoman pirates and taken to be sold as slaves or taken to harems. My Xaghra’s Revenge novel is the only one I know of that devotes a whole book to this event and follows the life of one woman, Lidia, and her little family. Stjepan became transformed from a dirt-scratching farmer, to a galley rower, sold in a desert auction in Libya and after a daring escape… spoiler! His wife Lidia experienced the shame and ignominy of being taken to a seraglio in Constantinople as a harem girl.
Blurb: A modern woman is descended from pirates while her lover came from their abductees? Or the other way round?
Vengeance Island is set in Malta, Gozo, France, Libya, and a harem in Constantinople.
Xaghra’s Revenge ran out of time in its contract with Solstice Publishing earlier in 2020 so after a few revisions I have self-published it as Vengeance Island. An ebook at first it is galleons cheaper than its earlier incarnation at less than a dollar / pound.
If you didn’t get around to reading this gripping true tale, with added extras, now is your chance.
It’s available on Kindle Unlimited and Kindle at this link:
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Other Nelder News
Personal Best anthology in which is my Don’t Bite my Finger… short monk punk story. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08F6CGF9X
Also published was ALIEN EXIT a science fiction first-contact novel as an ebook only https://mybook.to/alienexit
Escaping Reality – humorous thriller • http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
Hot Air – thriller set in Mallorca • http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
ARIA: Left Luggage – infectious amnesia scifi • smarturl.it/1fexhs
ARIA: Returning Left Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
ARIA: Abandon Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
Incremental – 25 surreal short stories • http://mybook.to/Incremental
Suppose We -science fiction space exploration • https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
The Chaos of Mokii ebook at https://mybook.to/Kaos
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October 2, 2020
The Chaos of Mokii released
THE CHAOS OF MOKII[image error]
Imagine a city which exists only in the combined minds of its inhabitants. There’s everything you’d expect in a real city including fun and trouble. Olga, has to get past the bouncer then in Mokii she finds an intruder. He is trying to usurp the virtual city because there is financial reward from the advertising revenue beamed into the visitors’ minds. Can she thwart him?
New science fiction book release. A short story that only takes you half an hour to read – honestly!
The Chaos of Mokii
ebook at https://mybook.to/Kaos
Acknowledgments
The idea for this city that exists only in the consciousness of a group of people came to me after reading The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (2010). There are similar though not identical concepts there.
Further, my short story writing group, Orbiter #2 of the BSFA are instrumental in obliging me to submit this story to Solstice Publishing.
Thanks go to Olga Guseva of Moscow, Russia, who always supports my writing and after whom the main character in The Chaos of Mokii is named
I don’t mind alternative viewpoints and ratings, after all it is an experimental metaphysical fiction. eg “Having not read science fiction before, I was pleasantly surprised by the sights and sounds in this unpredictable and delicious mind-spa. Mokii is a place where décor can range from a ‘cross between Titanic and a Cinderella nightmare’ and where avatars change at will. An original and exciting concept that will bend the senses and catapult the reader into another world.
Olga enters Mokii on a mission, but not a mission you might expect. When she is presented with a tray of silver thimbles filled with a ruby and emerald elixir, she can thought-call people, tag them, run through crystal corridors and helical stairways, and think a switch and it will all go away. But in this physical reality where pleasure is mostly in the mind, can we really know what is real and what is not?
Without giving away the plot, I found this a thought-provoking and well written story that challenged me and opened the door into a different and fascinating genre.”
No matter which country you are in this link will send you to the correct Amazon
https://mybook.to/Kaos
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Other Nelder News
Last month was published a Personal Best anthology in which is my Don’t Bite my Finger… short monk punk story. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08F6CGF9X
Also published was ALIEN EXIT a science fiction first-contact novel as an ebook only https://mybook.to/alienexit
Escaping Reality – humorous thriller • http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
Hot Air – thriller set in Mallorca • http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
ARIA: Left Luggage – infectious amnesia scifi • smarturl.it/1fexhs
ARIA: Returning Left Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
ARIA: Abandon Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
Incremental – 25 surreal short stories • http://mybook.to/Incremental
Suppose We -science fiction space exploration • https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
Home • http://geoffnelder.com
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September 2, 2020
Don’t bite my finger…
[image error]A group of writers mainly in the UK Authors forum have produced a new release collection: Personal Bests Journal.
I interloped into UK Authors years ago in order to travel on their UKAway writing retreats and so I experienced such exotic writing resorts as Greece, Northern Cyprus, Southern Cyprus, Carmarthen and Newcastle!
Selected from more than 130 submissions, the 31 stories in this first edition of the Personal Best journal have been chosen and edited by short story writer, novelist and (for 16 years) Prose Editor of Gold Dust Magazine, David Gardiner.
My story has its title taken from a Zen koan (short saying bulging with meaning)
“Don’t Bite My Finger…”
The rest of the koan says because I am pointing the way. My humour to just put the biting bit in the title.
It is of a novice monk who has to hike up a mountain in order to perform an impossible task. There is ironic humour in the banter he has with a companion.
ISBN-13 : 979-8671141009
Paperback : 300 pages
Product Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm
Paperback is £9.12 only at the moment
Other Nelder books
Escaping Reality – humorous thriller • http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
Hot Air – thriller set in Mallorca • http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
ARIA: Left Luggage – infectious amnesia scifi • smarturl.it/1fexhs
ARIA: Returning Left Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
ARIA: Abandon Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
Chaos of Mokii – scifi short – a city exists in minds only • http://mybook.to/ChaosOM
Xaghra’s Revenge – Malta historical fantasy with pirates / slaves • http://myBook.to/Xaghra
Incremental – 25 surreal short stories • http://mybook.to/Incremental
Suppose We -science fiction space exploration • https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
Home • http://geoffnelder.com
Facebook • http://bit.ly/2DnAmRS
Twitter @geoffnelder
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July 12, 2020
ALIEN EXIT #SCIFI
The idea for many of the original ideas in the book came while I was walking up Glastonbury Hill. Most science fiction books have to make their space vehicles leave a planet at escape velocity (ironically, the name of the magazine I co-edited at the time), use radio for communications, and in those days the pilots were men. So, in Exit the alien (although they were on and inside Earth long before homo sapiens existed) leave our planet very slowly indeed. It’s still possible. They ignore radio and the feisty woman pilot figures out a way to communicate never used in books before. The story ends on Glastonbury Hill too, but along the way visits iconic landmarks around the world and takes a leap back in history 30,000 years. Imagine a teenager from today finding himself back then?
One of the reviewers liked the sex in space scene while others thought it gratuitous. Such is the life of a writer.
Exit, Pursued by a Bee smashes the accepted wisdom that time passes smoothly. Perhaps Earth time is kept continuous by something that absorbs time decoherences – not for much longer. The Earth orbits the sun at 18 miles per second. If the mountain in front of you is thrown back a second, it slips 18 miles. Imagine such time-quakes happening all over the world.
As time-quakes cause chaos, a Mars mission is diverted to chase the departing time absorbing spheres. Arguing against hawkish military generals on Earth, the man and woman crew discover a means to communicate with the spheres, but will they listen and return to Earth?
* the title is a nod to the Shakespearean stage direction in Winter’s Tale
Rather than allow this magnificent novel to disappear into atoms of whatever happens to ebooks when plugs are pulled, I was persuaded by fellow scifi writer extraordinaire, Mark Iles (tweets at @welcometoearth isn’t that a great handle?) to self-publish. Hence the rebirth, like a phoenix from the ashes, Alien Exit. I shouldn’t use the original name because of the millions (ha ha) of second hand copies out there. So ALIEN EXIT released on the 12 July 2020 is a reworked, improved and cheaper version of Exit. If you didn’t grab a copy of it before now’s your chance with its simple, elegant book cover.
Other Nelder novels
Escaping Reality – humorous thriller • http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
Hot Air – thriller set in Mallorca • http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
ARIA: Left Luggage – infectious amnesia scifi • smarturl.it/1fexhs
ARIA: Returning Left Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
ARIA: Abandon Luggage • http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
Chaos of Mokii – scifi short – a city exists in minds only • http://mybook.to/ChaosOM
Xaghra’s Revenge – Malta historical fantasy with pirates / slaves • http://myBook.to/Xaghra
Incremental – 25 surreal short stories • http://mybook.to/Incremental
Suppose We -science fiction space exploration • https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
Home • http://geoffnelder.com
Facebook • http://bit.ly/2DnAmRS
Twitter @geoffnelder
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July 3, 2020
#Slavery perspective
Quite rightly, there’s a focus on Black Lives Matter after the appalling killing of George Floyd in America and the slave origins of many black people in the Americas. On July 2nd 2020, the BBC aired a documentary about the UK Slavery Abolition Act 1833 , which revealed that over 40,000 people that owned slaves mainly in the West Indies, claimed compensation for their “loss of property”. [see Britain’s Slave Owner Compensation Loan, reparations and tax havenry June 9th 2020]
Interesting that of the 40,000+ slave owners who claimed compensation most were men, some were women, and a few were ex-slaves-turned-slave owners. One reverend only had one slave but the one who owned the most was Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
In these relatively liberal times we have many perceived freedoms such as speech (but jail if you speak against the Queen – sedition), and employment, voting, home ownership and you can nearly live where you want given the funds. Hence it is ‘natural’ to be abhorred by the thought of innocent people being grabbed by pirates or traders and forcibly taken to another country and made to work without pay for the rest of your life. Worse, to be abused in many ways and have virtually no freedoms. Natural too, to focus on such slave abductions from West Africa to the Americas. It’s worth noting, however, that such slavery had been going on since – well, forever. The earliest writings from ancient Egypt, India, China and the Mayans and Aztecs (but not the Incas) indicate slavery was common.
I was shocked as any modern person when I discovered that 5,000 people were forcibly taken from their homes on Gozo by mercenary pirates in 1551 and sold into slavery in Tripoli and Constantinople. How many statues and monuments are there in those two cities commemorating slave owners from those days? I found that the Ottomans sailed as far away as Ireland and America for trade but also to grab unfortunate villagers as slaves. Yet, it was less shocking for those victims then as it is for us now. It was almost to be expected in those days. When Admiral Turgut Reis Dragut and Simon Pasha led the Ottoman forces against the Knights of Malta in 1565 during that famous siege. Dragut had been a galley slave himself in a Christian vessel. His opponent, Jean de Valette, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta was also a slave and rowed galleys for the Ottomans! It was as if you’d wake up any morning, stretch your arms and think, “I wonder if I’ll go back to this bed tonight, or end up as a prisoner to be sold today.”
[image error]It doesn’t make it any less horrific. Some of the weak and ill, very old and very young abductees from Gozo were thrown overboard on the way to Tripoli. Only the rich and well-connected were able to arrange their freedom to be bought. Most ended their days in harems or as working slaves on farms and galleys. I wonder though how many shrugged and just accepted this change knowing that another change could happen in the future?
My research into writing Xaghra’s Revenge based on the Gozo abduction, revealed that some might have accepted their fate but some were so incensed at being split from loved ones that they sought opportunities to escape and fight back. This is the story I chose to develop. If you’ve yet to read Xaghra’s Revenge then you can get it as a paperback or ebook from Amazon. This is the universal amazon ebook link but the paperback is on the same page.[image error]
facebook page https://www.facebook.com/xaghrasrevenge
Edit: by chance a Maltese newspaper ran a feature on Vallette this week
Decadal writing
2003 first short of the decade was called 2020 Vision (ironic)
2003-05 ESCAPING REALITY http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
2005-08 EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEE http://hyperurl.co/du4s3h
2009 HOT AIR http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
2009-12 ARIA LEFT LUGGAGE http://smarturl.it/1fexhs
2013 ARIA RETURNING LEFT LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
2014 ARIA ABANDON LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
2014-17 XAGHRA’S REVENGE http://myBook.to/Xaghra
2018 INCREMENTAL http://mybook.to/Incremental inc 25 shorts
2019 SUPPOSE WE, https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
2019 FALLING UP https://mybook.to/FallingUP
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June 14, 2020
Maybe I’m an anarchist
Genre stereotyping is something I strenuously try to avoid. Are the worlds in my science fiction stories exploring right-wing or left-wing governments? No. Most if not all countries and the world are governed by authoritarian regimes by definition, but my stories avoid them. When I think about it, I write a lot of post-apocalyptic tales, or small crews landing on faraway planets where governments either don’t exist or are so different the poor Earth people have no idea but to survive.
This article by Jordan Alexander Hill neatly summarises the development of science fiction’s approaches to libertarianism and authority in general and only by reading it have I realised properly that I might be an anarchist!
Here is the article for yourself https://quillette.com/2020/06/12/the-libertarian-history-of-science-fiction/?fbclid=IwAR3wH6dmjGTay9Z1JdLZMLKOHQr0FlWDIS2f6j0o04RRMhvNGXBioHz8Vn4
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May 20, 2020
#Lockdown on Malta then and now
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The Maltese islands on which Xaghra’s Revenge is based is faring well in these times. My friends there tell me tourism between Gozo and Malta has reopened so that will help to stimulate their economy a little. Of course in the main they need overseas tourists but I know several folk living on the main island of Malta who have holiday lets on Gozo, who until this week have not been able to travel there. I miss the gorgeous scenery and history there so much. So lucky that I was able to visit Malta and Gozo before the lockdown. Today, May 20th 2020 Malta had only 569 confirmed cases, sadly 6 deaths with 460 recovered.
Ironically, in 1551, the island of Gozo had lockdown procedures as did many islands in the Mediterranean. Were they preparing for epidemics like they’d had in plague years? In a way, only the plague were in the form of Ottoman and mercenary pirates. When the citadel bell rang on that fateful day in August 1551 all the inhabitants had, by decree, to get inside the city walls. Not all did, such as Stepjan and Lidia in Xaghra’s Revenge. Even those that did were captured because the bailiff saw that with 150 ships with well-armed janissaries and crew, they were not going to win a siege.
It’s certainly true that when pirates arrived, life changed on Gozo for ever.
As we speak you can sign up for Kindle Unlimited for free and download pages for free during this pandemic. Not sure for how long so if you want free reads do it soon.
Xaghra’s Revenge is set in Malta Libya, a harem in Constantinople and in France.
Review of Xaghra’s Revenge here in the Times! (Times of Malta)
It’s a romance, thriller and historical fiction and fantasy published by Solstice Publishing
Or via the publisher’s site Solstice Empire
Other Nelder news
I was an April Featured Writer in The Horror Zine with my COTARD short story set in Venice. I’m honoured also because the Bram Stoker Award winner Elisabeth Massie is in there too.
Cotard is a real syndrome where people think they are already dead – what a theme for a short story, I couldn’t resist it. FREE for those of you who fancy a mild horror tale to escape the more grim real life horror out there.[image error]
https://www.thehorrorzine.com/Fiction/April2020/GeoffNelder/GeoffNelder.html
A list of my publications in this last 17 years
2003 first short of the decade was called 2020 Vision (ironic)
2003-05 ESCAPING REALITY: a humorous thriller http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
2005-08 EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEE: sci fi http://hyperurl.co/du4s3h
2009 HOT AIR: literary thriller http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
2009-12 ARIA LEFT LUGGAGE: sci fi pandemic apocalypse http://smarturl.it/1fexhs
2013 ARIA RETURNING LEFT LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
2014 ARIA ABANDON LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
2014-17 XAGHRA’S REVENGE http://myBook.to/Xaghra
2018 INCREMENTAL: 25 short, surreal stories http://mybook.to/Incremental
2019 SUPPOSE WE: scifi https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
2019 FALLING UP: scifi https://mybook.to/FallingUP
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March 29, 2020
Writing news in the lockdown
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Yeay, I am an April Featured Writer in The Horror Zine with my COTARD short story set in Venice. I’m honoured also because the Bram Stoker Award winner Elisabeth Massie is in there too.
Cotard is a real syndrome where people think they are already dead – what a theme for a short story, I couldn’t resist it. FREE for those of you who fancy a mild horror tale to escape the more grim real life horror out there.
https://www.thehorrorzine.com/Fiction/April2020/GeoffNelder/GeoffNelder.html
Nelder News
Having to stay indoors except for a bike ride or hike in a day is normal life for most of us writers. Yes, we need food and whisky to be brought in by someone younger and healthier and the news is rather taking too much thinking time from writing but there you go. Strange too that we are living in a pandemic that isn’t too distant from the infectious amnesia pandemic I wrote in ARIA: Left Luggage – now only 99p / 99c as an ebook and only a packed lunch in paperback. Here it is
I enjoyed giving a reading and chatting about Xaghra’s Revenge in a Nottingham library just before lockdown in March. I a[image error]m in touch with my friends on Malta and Gozo who are in the same boat – so to speak – as the rest of us with COVID-19
A list of my publications in this last 17 years
2003 first short of the decade was called 2020 Vision (ironic)
2003-05 ESCAPING REALITY: a humorous thriller http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
2005-08 EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEE: sci fi http://hyperurl.co/du4s3h
2009 HOT AIR: literary thriller http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
2009-12 ARIA LEFT LUGGAGE: sci fi pandemic apocalypse http://smarturl.it/1fexhs
2013 ARIA RETURNING LEFT LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
2014 ARIA ABANDON LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
2014-17 XAGHRA’S REVENGE http://myBook.to/Xaghra
2018 INCREMENTAL: 25 short, surreal stories http://mybook.to/Incremental
2019 SUPPOSE WE: scifi https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
2019 FALLING UP: scifi https://mybook.to/FallingUP
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February 14, 2020
Row your boat
[image error]This excerpt from XAGHRA’S REVENGE illustrates the actual movement of the rowers on galleys in the 16th century. Contrary to what you might see in movies of galley slaves rowing while always sitting down, they stood for part of the cycle. It makes sense. For one thing there was less friction on the benches so their posteriors didn’t get so raw, sore. Also they use gravity better. It has to be remembered too that the oars, while heavy, were finely balanced on the divots so not as heavy to row, especially when there were three men per oar.
This section from Chapter 35 is just before our captured Gozo farmer makes a bid to escape over the side.
The drummer started the usual rhythm.
Push down, stand, forward, lift, back and sit.
Push down, stand, forward, lift, back and sit.
Push down, stand, forward, lift, back and sit.
Stjepan wore a maniacal grimace. Muscles screamed but energy surged, fuelled by hatred.
Push down, stand, forward, lift, back and sit.
Stjepan sailed through the pain, enjoying the rush. The pull and stand hurt, but that was sweet. The push hurt more–exquisitely so.
Push. Dragut, Push. Lurgus. Push for Sabid. Push for Lidia.
After an hour, Lurgus collapsed just as Stjepan had to stand. He stamped on the Greek’s neck, and heard bones crunch. Many other rowers, too exhausted to cry out, stayed sitting. The oars entangled. The drum master stopped beating and the horn blasted to signal up oars. Stjepan saw only three oars reach vertical. He didn’t bother with his, in pretence of attending Lurgus, who laid face down in the crud. If he hadn’t already died from exhaustion or a broken neck, he’d have suffocated. Stjepan’s elbow on the back of the sweat-laced bald head saw to that.
The link below is for the Kindle. Free on Kindle Unlimited, the price of a coffee and cake otherwise. The paperback is on Amazon too.
[image error]As usual I am in some trouble. One of the alternative cover images was created by John Keane, a fellow writer in the British Science Fiction Association critique group. It is rather racy as you see, and for this some folk say I’m sexist. However, many young women were enslaved from Gozo and taken to seraglios in Constantinople. Many endured their sex lives there and a few escaped. Part of the revenge in the title is for Lidia, when she tries to escape with a friend.
A list of my publications in this last 17 years
2003 first short of the decade was called 2020 Vision (ironic)
2003-05 ESCAPING REALITY: a humorous thriller http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
2005-08 EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEE: sci fi http://hyperurl.co/du4s3h
2009 HOT AIR: literary thriller http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
2009-12 ARIA LEFT LUGGAGE: sci fi pandemic apocalypse http://smarturl.it/1fexhs
2013 ARIA RETURNING LEFT LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
2014 ARIA ABANDON LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
2014-17 XAGHRA’S REVENGE http://myBook.to/Xaghra
2018 INCREMENTAL: 25 short, surreal stories http://mybook.to/Incremental
2019 SUPPOSE WE: scifi https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
2019 FALLING UP: scifi https://mybook.to/FallingUP
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January 15, 2020
Sexcerpt from Suppose We
[image error]After spending 1500 years, taking turns in hibernation on their spaceship, SUPPOSE WE, the four humans crashland on Kepler-20h. Sadly, the natives are so far ahead of Earth in technology and evolution, they ignore the humans, who need help. This excerpt is in a strange forested region.
“Em, are you having trouble with your hammock?”
He could see her white teeth in a smile as she came closer, followed by a scent of lemon. “I am, it doesn’t have you in it.”
He frowned. “You wish us to swap?”
“No, you clot. Move over.”
Gaston felt more than saw the side of the hammock dipping precariously as if it were a boat bent on capsizing. “Excuse moi? Ah, I see. I didn’t realise you…me…mais, what about the others?”
“My dear Frenchman, Penn and Delta have been rocking in the bushes for days.”
Mixed emotions washed over him. Pleasure that the woman he wanted to be with had at last desired him, but worries such as the hammock, meant for one.
“Is this bed sufficient to take us both, mon amour?”
She didn’t need to answer because he now could hear low moans from another hammock. Also, Em was already in with him and wearing nothing but a T-shirt. A fashion trend he was happy to follow.
“Be gentle with me, Em, this is the first time for over a thousand years.”
He allowed hormones and instinct to take over, although he’d still like to know which plant or process she’d used to emit a fragrance of lemons. Cavorting in a hammock at half gravity became an interesting dance, especially when two people’s limbs cavorted in syncopated delight. When post-coital dopamine flooded his brain an inchoate thought started to form wondering if on this planet, reproduction didn’t need such biochemical rewards.
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Tempted to read the whole novella?
Suppose We is available as a paperback and ebook. Free on Kindle Unlimited and only 99c for a limited time as an ebook.
Universal Kindle link https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
More on Suppose We: Q&A with Mark Iles The Scribe blog
https://www.thescribe.space/blog/supp...
More Nelder books
ESCAPING REALITY http://hyperurl.co/nyjaiv
EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEE http://hyperurl.co/du4s3h
HOT AIR http://hyperurl.co/di4y0h
ARIA LEFT LUGGAGE http://smarturl.it/1fexhs
ARIA RETURNING LEFT LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/tgtid6
ARIA ABANDON LUGGAGE http://hyperurl.co/26trxv
XAGHRA’S REVENGE http://myBook.to/Xaghra
INCREMENTAL http://mybook.to/Incremental inc 25 shorts
SUPPOSE WE, https://mybook.to/SupposeWe
Sequel to Suppose We FALLING UP https://mybook.to/FallingUP
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