Here are seven paragraphs from my romantic-comedy Leaving Who... A scene where things get a bit on the scary side for Cici Connors when she sees her friends John Smith, Captain Mac and Babbling Brook as they really are and not as she normally perceives them.
Leaving Who
from Mojocastle Press
After touring the universe with the sometimes inept time traveler John Smith, Cici Connors wants one more thing—to go home. Will the imminent destruction of Earth throw a kink into her plans?
“She looks different than when she first came through the door, you
mean,” I repeated. “Please tell me she is one of your lot.”
Before the words had left my lips the figure in front of me blurred
and reformed into the image of tattered dress-wearing Idris, better
known as the Doctor’s wife. “She’s… she’s done it again!”
Captain Mac sat beside me and put an arm around my shoulders. “Don’t
fight it, Cici. Your mind is trying to find the best way to represent
what she is. She’s a tough one to get a handle on—even for us.”
“You mean you see her as a multitude of personas, too?”
“I mean I see her like I’ve always seen her—like how I see John
and myself. We’re not human so we don’t have to visualize each
other as humans would.”
“You’re saying you don’t even remotely resemble the way I’ve
imagined you?”
I looked at Mac’s hand resting on my arm. Suddenly the hand lost
its five fingers as they melted together and began to curl upwards,
rapidly changing from a human flesh tone into a bright mauve color.
The arm became a tentacle and flowed into a solid blob instead of a
torso. I willed myself to look into his face and then at the faces of
John and our female guest…morphing and blurring into a pinkish,
purplish, grayish mass of endless eyes and tentacle-like appendages
and fangs dripping saliva and…
I passed out for the second time in as many days.
Leaving Who and Loving Who are available in e-formats and print from Mojocastle Press, Amazon and wherever fine ebooks are sold online. (Coming soon: Losing Who--is it the end for Cici and John Smith, or has Cici just lost her mind once too often?)
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5 comments :
Love Doctor Who! Love a Doctor Who nerd! =)
*blush* Aw, gee thanks, AJ. ;)
Passed out? I would have bolted. Brave woman.
LOL! Yeah, PJ, it's either a fight or a flight response, isn't it? Cici is far braver than I would be in the situation, but she's seen quite a few aliens by this point in the story, too. ;)
She'll be well taken care of I'm sure. :-)
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