I've Been Tagged!

H.M. Jones tagged me in the “7-7-7” challenge — to post seven lines starting at the seventh row of the seventh page of your current work in progress.

The manuscript I'm flogging away at right at this particular moment in my life is Hate's Profiting, which is the third and final installment of the Victoria da Vinci trilogy of historical science-fantasy novels.

Parenthetically, Book I is Dicing Time for Gladness and Book II is Crass Casualty . . . and of course this is the obligatory reminder that they are both available now on Amazon in print and Kindle editions as well as finer bookstores everywhere.

And without further ado, my 7-7-7:

Soon they reached the railroad crossing, two parallel sets of tracks that divided the city like a scar. On the other side stood warehouses and factories. Electric lights gave them a pale brightness, steady and saturating. Beyond that, starting at Juniper Street, a few blocks of declining but still reasonably habitable neighborhoods clung to the perimeter of the vibrant districts of downtown, from which music could very faintly be heard when the wind blew from the south. In the distance, not visible, hid the homes with clean driveways and manicured yards.

“Careful,” Titania said to Amy as they walked across the twin sets of railroad tracks. The wooden ties were rotten and splintered; dislodged, rusty spikes and broken bottles littered the crushed-stone ballast of the railroad bed.

Hate's Profiting is about halfway finished at this point, and I hope to complete it before the end of the year.

Keeping the chain going, I hereby tag Lisa L. Kirchner, Von Simeon, Lynn Waddell, and Erika Lance.


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