Birds and other animals. (Like, twitter! Birds tweet! Get it?)

[taste_is_sweet]

Tomorrow evening, my dear Flisties, you'll be able to find me staging a Twitter Takeover with my good buddy and partner in crime sgamadison. We'll be using the @dreamspinners account between 7 and 9 pm Eastern time (That's 6 and 8 Central). We'll be answering questions and discussing our books, and I'd love to see some of you there. :D

The other animals are were-dinosaurs. Specifically, seven lines of my current WIP novel, which I've lovingly given the working title of 'Gay Were-Dinosaurs of the Pseudo Amish Apocalypse'. I was tagged by brumeier, to take seven lines from the seventh page of a current WIP. So here ya go, a perfect two paragraphs:

The other end of the chain on the crazy hybrid's ankle was attached to one of the exposed metal supports in the crumbling concrete wall that surrounded the village. The enclosure for the hybrids used the wall as one side. The rest of the rectangle was made of nothing sturdier than thick pieces of wood. The fact that the two unchained hybrids hadn't leapt over the fence or broken it down and slaughtered every single person in the village was only because they were too weak to do it.

Kai sneered in disgust and allowed himself the soft growl that wanted to escape from his throat. He'd be the first to agree that the hybrids were horrifically destructive and the most dangerous land-animal on what was left of the planet, but they didn't deserve to be treated like this. This was torture by neglect.

And I'm tagging seven more:

sgamadison
debris_k
natsuko_writer
annieb1955
wildpear
iadorespike
tigertale7

Comments

[wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com]

Grrrrrr, your snippet has brought out my cranky: I hate reading about neglect & abuse of helpless creatures, no matter what they were before they became helpless. The lovely title leads me to hope that Kai might help these hybrids, tho' it doesn't seem like he has any affection for them....

Besides, I'd read the hell outta 'Gay Were-Dinosaurs of the Pseudo Amish Apocalypse' purely on principal! ;-)

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm sorry about that! Rest assured that the person who chained up the hybrids gets his own by the end of the story.

I'm glad you like the working title. I'm sure the real one will be a tad more sober, however. ;)