Holding Hoarse And Honoring Teachers
Two of my Awesome Sisters are teachers. I know how challenging this year has been for them. They’ve had to change their teaching plans again and again. They worry about their students getting ill. They worry about them falling behind. They worry that, due to all the other changes, they might not be as present for them as they’d like. They’re doing their best in a trying situation and I honor their actions, their dedication, their commitment.
In the cyborg world, teachers are called experts (because that is what they are). In Holding Hoarse, Arlicia’s best buddy, Zella, is an expert at a small academy.
Zella has her hands full. (grins) She has a diverse class with kids from a variety of species and cultures and she is trying to teach them during the Harvest Celebration. The kids have been eating the equivalent of candy all planet rotation and are super hyper.
I suspect this is what many teachers here on Earth are dealing with right now. The holidays are approaching. Kids are extremely excited about that and they have more energy than usual.
I appreciate all teachers do during ‘normal’ times (whatever normal truly is) but I’m especially grateful for all they’ve done this year. Thank you to everyone in teaching roles (including support staff and parents who are teaching kids from home)!
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Holding Hoarse
This cyborg warrior WILL become worthy of love.
* * *
Hoarse hasn’t found his female, the one being manufactured for him. There is only one reason he can process for his lack of success—he isn’t yet worthy of claiming a female.
The big C Model is determined to change that status. He considers ulu, or doll, fabrication to be an essential part of mate preparation. Seeking to hone his skills, he contacts a reclusive doll maker and asks her to train him.
He doesn’t realize the being he is sharing his deficiencies with is his destined mate.
Arlicia desires a male whose face she has never seen. Her new trainee’s persistence, intelligence, and curiosity warrant admiration. His deep voice evokes visions of passionate kisses and heated embraces. His large hands cause her to quiver with wanting.
Before their professional relationship ends, she wants to rendezvous with Hoarse. The curious doll maker hopes for a glimpse of the huge warrior.
When a cyborg intent on being the perfect mate meets the female who knows all his secrets, garments are shed, illusions shatter, and beings die.
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Holding Hoarse is a short, light, companion story in the Cyborg Space Exploration series and is meant to be read after Testing Truth.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance featuring an intense C Model warrior, an understanding doll maker, and packs of imperfect toys seeking loving homes.
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Throwback Thursday – Dark Flight
I always associate angels with this time of the year. When I was a child, we had an angel tree topper. She was very old, as I always assume angels are, and she was extremely fragile, which I picture angels to appear. I was as fumbly then as I am now and I never trusted myself to hold her, feared I would drop her.
Orol, the hero of Dark Flight, resembles an angel in some ways. He has wings, has the ability to live forever, enjoys powers humans don’t have, is extremely beautiful. He is very NOT like an angel in other ways. He enjoys killing a bit too much and he vastly enjoys sexy times with his mate. (grins)
Dark Flight
His mission. His challenge. His forever.
Orol, the Refuge’s second-in-command, has been given what he believes is a simple mission—escort two human females to the settlement. The winged warrior arrives at the meeting site to find one of the females missing and the other aiming a gun at his head. To rescue the first, he must capture the second. Once he has Rhea in his talons, however, he realizes he never wants to let her go.
Her enemy. Her captor. Her everything.
Rhea doesn’t trust anyone. She certainly doesn’t follow commands issued by a gorgeous flying male with glittering eyes, a beautiful face, and a seductive touch. Orol is dominant, edged with darkness, and determined to find her sister. Rhea will do anything to prevent that, even if it means playing sensual games of submission with her powerful enemy, seducing him into forgetting everything except her.
Dark Flight is a STAND-ALONE SciFi Romance set in a gritty, dark world.
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Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/dark-flight/id1242494643
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Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dark-flight-3
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Containing Malice Available For Pre-ordering!
After posting my upcoming releases schedule yesterday, some reading buddies asked about the pre-order links for Containing Malice, the first story in the Rebel Cyborgs series.
Those links are listed below.
I was also asked if we need to read all the previous cyborg stories and subseries to enjoy the Rebel Cyborgs series.
That isn’t necessary. The stories, especially Containing Malice, are written to be read on their own. Malice, the hero, doesn’t even realize cyborgs have mass rebelled. He assumes they are all under the control of the Humanoid Alliance as he is.
If you HAVE read the previous stories, you will have insights other readers don’t have, however. Some of the revelations will likely mean more to you. Some of the guest appearances will also be more exciting.
Containing Malice
This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.
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Malice, a C Model cyborg, has spent his long lifespan enslaved by the Humanoid Alliance. His cruel manufacturers have hurt him in all the ways a male could be hurt.
His enemy has now added a new weapon to their arsenal—a tiny human medic with soft hands and a delectable scent. She experiments on him multiple times a shift, delivering pain…and frustration.
He wants her. He also seeks retribution.
Once Malice frees himself, he plans to achieve both of his goals, taking Medic Illona captive and ending her research…permanently.
Illona is as much a prisoner as the cyborgs she experiments on. Since her arrival at the Human Alliance’s secret laboratory, she has carefully, stealthily, crafted a plot to free her test subjects. To conceal her covert activities, the medic has been forced to harm beings rather than heal them.
The being she has damaged the most is also the cyborg she fiercely desires— Malice, a huge, gray-skinned, blue-eyed C Model with massive hands and a voice deeper than space. He hates her, has good reason to do so, and, when he’s freed, there’s a high probability he’ll kill her.
Illona will take that risk to ensure he survives.
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Containing Malice is a STANDALONE enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It is the first of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power
Pre-order Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LK4CWHS
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08LK4CWHS
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B08LK4CWHS
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/containing-malice/id1536770487
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/containing-malice-cynthia-sax/1137961594
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/containing-malice
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1049881
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Upcoming Cynthia Sax Releases
It is time for my monthly update on upcoming releases and I’m SUPER excited about 2021!
I’ve already semi-finalized the first core release – Containing Malice (releasing in February)— and I absolutely LOVE this story. It makes me laugh and cry and the ending…oh boy, the ending makes me melt. Malice might be a C Model but he is best friends with an E Model and he can TALK when he wants to do that (which is seldom as he is a C Model – grins).
I will be releasing omnibuses of past stories this year (an omnibus containing some of the Cyborg Sizzle stories is releasing in January). I also plan to release some more C.S. Sax short story collections.
But my focus will be on the Rebel Cyborgs series. There will be a story releasing in that series at least every 3 months (I would love to have all 5 stories releasing in 2021 but I don’t think that’s possible, not with the pandemic and taking care of loved ones).
I’m writing the first draft of Under Strain now. Strain is a D Model and one of Cadet’s Rebel Cyborgs. We ‘met’ him in Cyborg Space Exploration but we didn’t know his name then.
Here is my core story release schedule
February 2021 – Containing Malice (Available For Pre-ordering Now)
May 2021 – Under Strain
August 2021 – Baring Grudge
November 2021 – B Free
December 2021 – Valor’s Story
February 2022 – Seizing Power
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Holding Hoarse
This cyborg warrior WILL become worthy of love.
* * *
Hoarse hasn’t found his female, the one being manufactured for him. There is only one reason he can process for his lack of success—he isn’t yet worthy of claiming a female.
The big C Model is determined to change that status. He considers ulu, or doll, fabrication to be an essential part of mate preparation. Seeking to hone his skills, he contacts a reclusive doll maker and asks her to train him.
He doesn’t realize the being he is sharing his deficiencies with is his destined mate.
Arlicia desires a male whose face she has never seen. Her new trainee’s persistence, intelligence, and curiosity warrant admiration. His deep voice evokes visions of passionate kisses and heated embraces. His large hands cause her to quiver with wanting.
Before their professional relationship ends, she wants to rendezvous with Hoarse. The curious doll maker hopes for a glimpse of the huge warrior.
When a cyborg intent on being the perfect mate meets the female who knows all his secrets, garments are shed, illusions shatter, and beings die.
***
Holding Hoarse is a short, light, companion story in the Cyborg Space Exploration series and is meant to be read after Testing Truth.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance featuring an intense C Model warrior, an understanding doll maker, and packs of imperfect toys seeking loving homes.
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Holding Hoarse And Doll Making
When I was a kid, my family didn’t have any extra money for toys…so toys were made. Tree branches became swords. Pine cones became balls. Scrap fabric became dolls.
My Awesome Grandma was a skilled rag doll maker. She could craft a doll out of a handful of scraps, fabric salvaged from worn or stained clothing. (She made Barbie clothes for my more affluent cousins and they were tiny works of art.)
My most prized doll was one I called Raggedy Anne. She didn’t at all resemble the Raggedy Ann you’re likely thinking of. I merely called her that so I could tell other kids I had a Raggedy Anne doll.
That wasn’t a lie. It was the truth. Merely not the truth they had assumed.
(grins) I was a problem solver even as a kid.
Raggedy Anne was special because she was knitted, was made of yarn. Yarn was and still is expensive. My Awesome Grandma would carefully take apart sweaters that were past their usage and re-use that yarn for dolls, teddy bears and Barbie clothes.
She crafted a doll for me out of yellow and brown yarn. The doll’s form was yellow. Her eyes, hair, lips, nose, clothing were brown.
Most people would likely think she was hideous. But I loved and still love that fraggin’ doll.
I took care of Raggedy Anne. She never left the house, rarely left whatever I was using as a bed at that time. I tried to clean my hands before touching her. In my eyes, Raggedy Anne was the BEST doll and I wouldn’t have traded her for any other plaything.
When my Awesome Grandma crafted that doll, she, like Hoarse, fabricated love.
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Holding Hoarse
This cyborg warrior WILL become worthy of love.
* * *
Hoarse hasn’t found his female, the one being manufactured for him. There is only one reason he can process for his lack of success—he isn’t yet worthy of claiming a female.
The big C Model is determined to change that status. He considers ulu, or doll, fabrication to be an essential part of mate preparation. Seeking to hone his skills, he contacts a reclusive doll maker and asks her to train him.
He doesn’t realize the being he is sharing his deficiencies with is his destined mate.
Arlicia desires a male whose face she has never seen. Her new trainee’s persistence, intelligence, and curiosity warrant admiration. His deep voice evokes visions of passionate kisses and heated embraces. His large hands cause her to quiver with wanting.
Before their professional relationship ends, she wants to rendezvous with Hoarse. The curious doll maker hopes for a glimpse of the huge warrior.
When a cyborg intent on being the perfect mate meets the female who knows all his secrets, garments are shed, illusions shatter, and beings die.
***
Holding Hoarse is a short, light, companion story in the Cyborg Space Exploration series and is meant to be read after Testing Truth.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance featuring an intense C Model warrior, an understanding doll maker, and packs of imperfect toys seeking loving homes.
Download For FREE Today:
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – December 6th
Holding Hoarse released this week. Have you received your copy? (If not, you can download it here – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/9u4o1im0u0 )
If you have any issues with receiving Holding Hoarse, please let me know!
I’m working on Chapter 4 of Under Strain, the May Rebel Cyborgs story, today. I love Strain and I love his female. They push each other out of their comfort zones, which I think is wonderful. They both need that.
Containing Malice, the February Rebel Cyborgs story, has been formatted. I will re-read it yet again, searching for typos and other errors. I’ll likely find one or two issues, which means the story will have to be re-formatted (The Dear Wonderful Hubby is now formatting the stories. That allows me to do this.). Some errors will still make it to the release copy, unfortunately. There are no perfect stories in this wonderful world.
I’ll be focused this upcoming week on the next 6 chapters of Under Strain (6 chapters as I am behind schedule and will be working the weekend). I’m excited to see what happens!
Have a great week, my friends! Stay as safe as you can. Read wonderful books. Grab joy whenever that is possible. I love you. I’m thinking about you. I want the best for you.
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Holding Hoarse
This cyborg warrior WILL become worthy of love.
* * *
Hoarse hasn’t found his female, the one being manufactured for him. There is only one reason he can process for his lack of success—he isn’t yet worthy of claiming a female.
The big C Model is determined to change that status. He considers ulu, or doll, fabrication to be an essential part of mate preparation. Seeking to hone his skills, he contacts a reclusive doll maker and asks her to train him.
He doesn’t realize the being he is sharing his deficiencies with is his destined mate.
Arlicia desires a male whose face she has never seen. Her new trainee’s persistence, intelligence, and curiosity warrant admiration. His deep voice evokes visions of passionate kisses and heated embraces. His large hands cause her to quiver with wanting.
Before their professional relationship ends, she wants to rendezvous with Hoarse. The curious doll maker hopes for a glimpse of the huge warrior.
When a cyborg intent on being the perfect mate meets the female who knows all his secrets, garments are shed, illusions shatter, and beings die.
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Holding Hoarse is a short, light, companion story in the Cyborg Space Exploration series and is meant to be read after Testing Truth.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance featuring an intense C Model warrior, an understanding doll maker, and packs of imperfect toys seeking loving homes.
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Holding Hoarse And Being Worthy Of Love
I believe EVERYONE is worthy of love. (big hugs) We don’t have to change or achieve our definitions of success or do something special to be deserving of caring.
Not everyone BELIEVES they are worthy of love, however. That’s a normal feeling and it is very different from genuinely not being deserving of love.
Hoarse, the C Model hero of Holding Hoarse, doesn’t believe he warrants caring…yet. He is working toward that goal when he meets his female. But that goal is one he has set himself. You and I both know he was already deserving of love during Passion Surge, the previous story. He merely didn’t believe that.
As many of us don’t believe it. That’s natural and okay but it isn’t reality. We DO deserve love.
Many people also aren’t ready for lasting, permanent relationships. They might not be in that emotional space or they might have other goals they are focused on.
This is often the case of the characters in my stories. They are worthy of love (though they might not believe that) but they aren’t yet ready for love. They might get to that point…eventually or (if they’re minor characters) they might be super happy on their own.
You ARE worthy of love, my friend. Don’t ever doubt that. You don’t have to craft perfect dolls, as Hoarse believes, to warrant caring. You already deserve it!
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Holding Hoarse
This cyborg warrior WILL become worthy of love.
* * *
Hoarse hasn’t found his female, the one being manufactured for him. There is only one reason he can process for his lack of success—he isn’t yet worthy of claiming a female.
The big C Model is determined to change that status. He considers ulu, or doll, fabrication to be an essential part of mate preparation. Seeking to hone his skills, he contacts a reclusive doll maker and asks her to train him.
He doesn’t realize the being he is sharing his deficiencies with is his destined mate.
Arlicia desires a male whose face she has never seen. Her new trainee’s persistence, intelligence, and curiosity warrant admiration. His deep voice evokes visions of passionate kisses and heated embraces. His large hands cause her to quiver with wanting.
Before their professional relationship ends, she wants to rendezvous with Hoarse. The curious doll maker hopes for a glimpse of the huge warrior.
When a cyborg intent on being the perfect mate meets the female who knows all his secrets, garments are shed, illusions shatter, and beings die.
***
Holding Hoarse is a short, light, companion story in the Cyborg Space Exploration series and is meant to be read after Testing Truth.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance featuring an intense C Model warrior, an understanding doll maker, and packs of imperfect toys seeking loving homes.
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Holding Hoarse And Harvest
In Holding Hoarse, the children are participating in a joyous end of harvest celebration. End of harvest is a common celebration in my stories.
Why?
Because end of harvest is celebrated in almost all cultures, all religions right here on Earth. (Thanksgiving is the primary North American celebration of the harvest.) We all need to eat. Much of our food comes from crops.
Being a former farmgal, I understand how much hard work harvest is and what a relief, what a source of happiness a solid harvest is. Many factors influence crop yields. A good harvest feels like a blessing and is certainly a reason for celebration.
I doubt this would change on other inhabitable planets. Alien species need some sort of energy inputs or nourishment. I suspect much of that would come from plants and, if the planet has seasons/temperature changes, there would likely be an ideal time to harvest those plants.
Then it would be party time. (laughs) It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a being benefiting from a good harvest, would be in want of a celebration.
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Holding Hoarse
This cyborg warrior WILL become worthy of love.
* * *
Hoarse hasn’t found his female, the one being manufactured for him. There is only one reason he can process for his lack of success—he isn’t yet worthy of claiming a female.
The big C Model is determined to change that status. He considers ulu, or doll, fabrication to be an essential part of mate preparation. Seeking to hone his skills, he contacts a reclusive doll maker and asks her to train him.
He doesn’t realize the being he is sharing his deficiencies with is his destined mate.
Arlicia desires a male whose face she has never seen. Her new trainee’s persistence, intelligence, and curiosity warrant admiration. His deep voice evokes visions of passionate kisses and heated embraces. His large hands cause her to quiver with wanting.
Before their professional relationship ends, she wants to rendezvous with Hoarse. The curious doll maker hopes for a glimpse of the huge warrior.
When a cyborg intent on being the perfect mate meets the female who knows all his secrets, garments are shed, illusions shatter, and beings die.
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Holding Hoarse is a short, light, companion story in the Cyborg Space Exploration series and is meant to be read after Testing Truth.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance featuring an intense C Model warrior, an understanding doll maker, and packs of imperfect toys seeking loving homes.
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Throwback Thursday – Releasing Rage
Containing Malice, the first story in the Rebel Cyborgs subseries (releasing in February), reminds me of Releasing Rage, the first cyborg romance I crafted. The heroes are both C Models and they are both very angry…with good reason.
There are huge differences, of course. Malice and Rage are each unique beings. Their pasts are different and their futures will be different. Their females are extremely different. Joan, Rage’s female, is an engineer, as one example. Illona, Malice’s female, is a medic forced into an evil scientist role.
But I love both of these stories. While you’re waiting for Containing Malice to release, you might wish to revisit with Rage and Joan and re-read Releasing Rage.
Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.
Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.
Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.
When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?
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On Amazon AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/Releasing-Rage-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B00ZOL1DRO
On Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/releasing-rage/id1025933626
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Holding Hoarse – Share The Link With Your Friends
Some reading buddies have asked me if they can share the download link for Holding Hoarse with their friends and on social media.
Yes. Definitely. Do whatever you wish. If it gives you joy to share it, share it. If you think it will give someone else joy to read Holding Hoarse, also share the link.
I wrote this story for reading buddies including you and for newsletter subscribers but BookFunnel will ask new-to-me readers to sign up for my newsletter (One of us! One of us!) so they WILL be newsletter subscribers.
My sole purpose for writing and releasing Holding Hoarse was to make you happy. Do whatever makes you happy, my friend. (big hugs) This is one gift that can be re-gifted with zero guilt.
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Holding Hoarse
This cyborg warrior WILL become worthy of love.
* * *
Hoarse hasn’t found his female, the one being manufactured for him. There is only one reason he can process for his lack of success—he isn’t yet worthy of claiming a female.
The big C Model is determined to change that status. He considers ulu, or doll, fabrication to be an essential part of mate preparation. Seeking to hone his skills, he contacts a reclusive doll maker and asks her to train him.
He doesn’t realize the being he is sharing his deficiencies with is his destined mate.
Arlicia desires a male whose face she has never seen. Her new trainee’s persistence, intelligence, and curiosity warrant admiration. His deep voice evokes visions of passionate kisses and heated embraces. His large hands cause her to quiver with wanting.
Before their professional relationship ends, she wants to rendezvous with Hoarse. The curious doll maker hopes for a glimpse of the huge warrior.
When a cyborg intent on being the perfect mate meets the female who knows all his secrets, garments are shed, illusions shatter, and beings die.
***
Holding Hoarse is a short, light, companion story in the Cyborg Space Exploration series and is meant to be read after Testing Truth.
It is also a BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance featuring an intense C Model warrior, an understanding doll maker, and packs of imperfect toys seeking loving homes.
Download For FREE Today:
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/9u4o1im0u0
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