Welcome Back - SciFiFanSat! STEIN Snippet#13

Heeeeerrrreeeee’s Saturday!  Or my alternate title – All Work and No Snippets Make Saturday a Dull Boy!  It’s back and up and running on all cylinders. Science Fiction Fantasy Saturday has returned and to celebrate, we’re going to turn the clocks back this weekend here in the U.S. to give everyone a whole extra hour to read some great snippets over at the main site – SciFiFanSat.blogspot.com . Make sure you stop over and check them out – now expanded to a new length of fifteen – that’s right, count ‘em – fifteen sentences in length. All the same great snippet goodness, now with fifty percent more content. This week I’m re-visiting Annie as she struggles for survival in my WIP for SFFSat titled STEIN. She’s already been attacked by a hungry horde of flesh-eating zombies and narrowly escaped with the help of a mysterious stranger lurking in a nearby garbage dumpster. Here, she’s learning a little more about her knight in tin foil armor. __________________________________________________          "They call me Stein," he said.
          "As in...," Annie asked, hoping he would finish.
          "As in I'm a monster."
          Annie watched his hand involuntarily brush across the scar running the length of his cheek and neck.  His face may have haunted her dreams a few months before but barely caused her to pause in the nightmare world her life had become since. 
          "You're going to have to work a lot harder than a couple scratches to be a monster in my book, Mr. Stein," Annie said as she touched his shoulder.
          "You're not afraid?" The man brushed back the thick black hair covering his face.
          Annie was more startled by the pain swirling behind his pale green eyes than the patchwork of flesh on his face.
          "You’re not planning on making me a midnight snack, are you?" she asked, half-smiling.
          "What?"
          "You know, go all brains brains on me."
          His laugh sounded like a mix between a gag and a cough and caught him as much by surprise as Annie.
          "Well, good, it looks like I made a new friend then," she said. ______________________________________________          And there you have it! Another installment of STEIN.  I hope you enjoyed it and I’m definitely glad SFFSat is back in the saddle and sharing snippets again. If you haven’t checked out the site, make sure that you do and, if you’re a writer/author, consider contributing some snippets of your own. It’s addicting but fun. Have a great weekend! See you in seven! (Wow – I haven’t got to type that for over a month!)