#SFRBP Snippet from “This Changes Everything”

by

http://www.sfrcontests.blogspot.com

From Chapter One, This Changes Everything, Volume I, The Spanners Series,in which Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., first meets the visitors from the Many World Collective:

…my mind is racing through possibilities. They are aliens! I am feeling excited and intensely interested. I assume that if they meant to harm me, I’d be harmed, already, so I am rapidly becoming less scared. Brimming with questions and curiosity, I go right over to them.

My upbringing kicks in, maybe because they are around my dining table, and I ask them kind of automatically, “Would you like some tea or something cold to drink? Are you hungry?” Then, I laugh, and they make some noises that must be their ways of showing amusement; they aren’t here; they are holograms. They can’t eat or drink anything. Duh.

I sit down in my chair which they seem to know is mine because it isn’t blocked or occupied. I look towards them, expectantly, and realize I don’t know where to look. Only one of them has anything resembling “eyes,” and the other four do not even really have anything I would call a “face.” Still, reflexively, I guess, I keep my focus on their upper bodies’ uppermost sections and on the zeppelin’s middle.

I ask, “How may I be of service? Why have you come to see me?”

4 thoughts on “#SFRBP Snippet from “This Changes Everything””

  2. I have always been fascinated by alien contact stories, and this scene fits the bill perfectly. I feel Clara’s wonder and excitement!

    Like

    • Thank you, Heidi! You made my day! If you want to read the first 14 Chapters of This Changes Everything, look elsewhere on this site. If you want to pre-order the ebook, check back here in about 10 days (pre-orders start Nov. 5 at half-price!) for links to Shashwords, Apple iBook, Kobo and Barnes & Noble. If you are on Goodreads, starting on 12/21 the ebook is released via Smashwords, I’d love your review/comments! You can also go on authonomy.com and wattpad.com and comment/review the same excerpts I have here on my own site, any time. Follow me on Twitter @sallyemberedd. I’m a new author, trying to build my “platform,” and “buzz” for Volume I. Please spread the word with your own network and thanks, again! http://www.sallyember.com/spanners

      Like

Comments are closed.