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[image error]I, Effing Feline, have found the perfect painting of Twiggles the Dog, my sometimes friend and always nemesis.

For comparison purposes, at right is a photo of the dumb dog admiring one of the grandchildren. She looks sweet, right? Well, the camera lies! Below is the truth — a cat’s eye view of Twiggles the Dog!

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Today’s snippet from Ed’s upcoming sci fi romance, Constellation XXI, picks up from where last week’s left off. Sienna Dukelsky is a young starship pilot on her first solo flight on a tugship. Tugships, like tugboats, are a key part of traffic control around Farflung Space Station; they guide incoming spaceships to safe berths without  crashing into the station or other spacecraft.

But things get complicated when an incoming ship is piloted by none other than her first, best lover, Crispin Hunt — a lover she had hurt and betrayed. Here is the final line from last week: Now he was here, on this very ship, trailing rainbow memories that seduced her senses and shrouded her brain as powerfully as the shielding on the ship’s reactors.

It was no surprise, then, that Sienna’s first coherent thought, post-ship-death, was that Crispin had turned off the lights on the bridge to sneak up and throw his arms around her like old times and then —

No. The past was ashes. Love was just a cruel ghost. She had murdered it.

Her second thought when the ship died, a nanosecond after the first, forced a black scowl that banished all color.

Sergeant Vallant. The marine must be hazing her again for no better reason than she was a rookie from a rich and famous family, though a humble twig of the family tree. But how dare Vallant mess with the ship! Turning off lights and artificial gravity was surely a court-martial offense.

Effing Feline here again. It sounds to me like Sergeant Vallant will be Sienna’s antagonist, just like Twiggles is mine. And speaking of Twiggles, that painting captures the essence of dogdom but with one thing wrong. The dog has a tail. Twiggles doesn’t. Who ever heard of a dog without a tail to wag? Ha ha ha!

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Constellation XXI

Rediscovering love at the worst possible time

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Although Sienna Dukelsky had been the most promising pilot at the astroSpace academy, she inexplicably settles for a routine, unglamorous job guiding incoming spaceships to safe berths at Farflung Space Station. Rumors, never verified, blamed her surprising decision on trouble with a boyfriend who got expelled from the academy.

Crispin Hunt, fleeing enemy forces, is greeted by a tugship captained by his old girlfriend, Sienna. As they approach Farflung, love rekindles . . . until an old betrayal bubbles to the surface. After her ship loses power while aimed right at the space station, Sienna discovers the dangerous truth about Crispin’s cargo — making her routine job the most important in the entire galaxy.

Edward Hoornaert’s romantic space opera, Constellation XXI, continues the saga of the Dukelsky family begun in The Guardian Angel of Farflung Station and Escapee.