Six Sentence Sunday, Rock Crazy

“To the Moon!” Katie

Scott came home early one night a couple of months later.

“Hey, Babe, how’d you like to go to the Moon?”

Katie was suspicious. “Why?”

“I’m working an outage up there, and I thought you’d like to come along.”

“Is this some ploy to get me to have that surgery?” she asked.

 “I’ll be gone a full six months, and I don’t wanna leave you here alone. Not as volatile as you’ve been, lately.”

“So you want me to go up there so you can baby-sit me? I’m surprised you’re not telling me I have to move in with one of my brothers if I don’t go.”

Scott was silent.

Okay, that was more than six sentences.  I trimmed it as much as I could to get the point across.

Blurb: 

Katie McGowan is bi-polar, and she’s run the gamut of medications.  Everyone is telling her she should go to the Moon and have microchip surgery, but she’s afraid she’ll become an automaton.  In a last-ditch, tough love effort to force her to get the chip, her husband, Scott takes her to the Moon and divorces her when she decks him. Then she discovers she’s pregnant.  She can’t have the surgery or take her meds until after the baby’s born.

Scott is elated when he hears he’s going to be a father and naturally assumes Katie will take him back.  He always intended to take her back as soon she had the surgery.  He has no clue how badly he hurt her, how thoroughly he’s broken her trust—or that he may not get her back at all.

Length:  129 Pages

Price:  $5.50

Buy Link:  http://tinyurl.com/museituprockcrazy

Six Sentences from Rock Bound

 

A dictator has taken over the United States.  When citizens protest the downfall of the Constitution at the Mall in Washington, DC, US troops open fire on them.  Some of the survivors are going to the Moon as slave labor for the Freezeland Mining Corporation, which is, of course, owned by Tad Freezeland, the dictator.

Six Sentences:

August, 2051

Federal Corrections Center—Petersburg, VA

The prisoners who passed their physicals were fitted for pressure suits, which were issued by the Freezeland Mining Corp. Jake Johnsrud and the Johnson twins were amazed the FMC was spending so much money to outfit its miners—until they were each handed a chit to sign. The cost of the p-suits had been calculated in pounds of ore. The FMC would support them and their fellow inmates until their indentures were paid, but they would be accumulating a debt in cubic yards of ore for every day the FMC had to house and feed them.

In fact, the chits were backdated to the date of their arrests. Their indentures would grow daily, unless they managed to wrest enough ore from the rock not only to pay their original indentures, but also to pay for their equipment, room, and board. … It finally occurred to Jake he was facing a life sentence, rather than the ten years to which he had agreed.

BLURB:

The future is a dangerous place for dreamers and idealists.

When a dictator takes over the United States, Annie Peterson attends a protest in Washington, DC, with her husband Paul. US troops fire into the crowd killing him, and Jake Johnsrud, a virtual stranger, risks his life to save hers. They are among the survivors who are sentenced to slavery on the Moon for their “crimes”—Jake as a miner; Annie as a sex slave.

Jake fights increasing feelings of anger and jealousy as Annie struggles to perform her job, while she resists her increasing attraction to him. Along with their fellow inmates, they fight to survive on the lunar "rock" that is their prison.

Admission--Six Sentences from Rock Crazy

Abandoned, pregnant, and bi-polar, Katie McGowan’s going crazy on that God-forsaken rock, the Moon!

Mommy, don’t kill me!  Don’t kill me!

“I won’t kill you.  I just want the pain to end.  I just wanna kill me!”

Don’t kill me, Mommy!

“Daddy’ll take care of you.  He’ll save you.”

Mommy, don’t kill me.  I’m here, Mommy!  Don’t hurt me!

“Be good for Daddy.  Tell him—Tell him I love him.”

Severely bi-polar, Katie is hallucinating and arguing with her unborn child about committing suicide.

Blurb:

Katie McGowan is bi-polar, and she’s run the gamut of medications.  Everyone is telling her she should go to the Moon and have microchip surgery, but she’s afraid she’ll become an automaton.  In a last-ditch, tough love effort to force her to get the chip, her husband, Scott takes her to the Moon and divorces her when she decks him. Then she discovers she’s pregnant.  She can’t have the surgery or take her meds until after the baby’s born.

Scott is elated when he hears he’s going to be a father and naturally assumes Katie will take him back.  He always intended to take her back as soon she had the surgery.  He has no clue how badly he hurt her, how thoroughly he’s broken her trust—or that he may not get her back at all.

Length:  129 Pages

Price:  $5.50

Buy Link: http://tinyurl.com/museituprockcrazy

Six Sentence Sunday – Rock Bound

The following passage is from the second chapter of my first book, Rock Bound, which is available in both paperback and multiple e-book formats. I have not included a blurb since the trailer is just above on the left.  Hope you enjoy both the trailer and my six sentences.

Annie Peterson and her friend Crystal Petrie survived the chaos at the protest against the dictator who has taken over the United States.  Troops arrested them and they’ve arrived at the Armory in Washington, DC, where the Marines are processing the prisoners.

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“Put everything in these boxes,” a tough-looking female Marine Sergeant told the women. “All yer jewelry, too.” …

The [first] woman emptied her pockets into the box and began to walk through the metal detector. “Yer still wearin’ jewelry,” the Sergeant chided her.

“These are my wedding rings!”

[The Sergeant] grabbed the woman’s hand, pulled out a vibro-blade, and sliced off the woman’s finger.

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