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Cyborgs And Undergarments

By Cynthia Sax on December 3, 2021

A reading buddy asked me, “Do cyborgs wear underwear?”

No. (grins) They don’t wear underwear.

I doubt they’d wear underwear if they lived here on Earth with us. They are commando type of males. Heck, they don’t like wearing outer garments. They’d walk around naked all the time if that was feasible.

In the cyborg world, however, undergarments are usually built into the outer garments. A human female’s flight suit, for example, would have a built-in breast support. There would be no need for a bra. Yay!

(Beings, situated on the different planets the cyborgs visit, might wear undergarments if that is part of their culture, however.)

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

When he intercepts a communication mentioning the existence of one of his kind, he has to investigate its source. The message could be a trap set by his enemies. He’ll take that risk if it secures him the companionship he requires to be fully functional.

What he finds is a daring brown-eyed female who activates all his systems. She proudly proclaims she’s a researcher, brandishing that information like a weapon before her. He wants to kiss the sass off her beautiful face, protect her from the dangers around them, claim her forever.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

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B Free is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features the sole surviving B Model cyborg warrior, a courageous researcher seeking to uncover the past, and an unplanned visit to a settlement ruled by an extremely scary all-knowing, all-powerful being.

B Free is the fourth 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

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B Free And The Modified Humanoids

By Cynthia Sax on November 30, 2021

Kralj, the Ruler of the Refuge, is known for not interfering with happenings outside the settlement. He had enough things to manage inside it. (grins) The residents are some of the worst beings in the universe.

Is he likely to directly interfere with the conflict between the Rebel Cyborgs and the Cyborg Council?

No. But he believes in free will and he is unlikely to stop his warriors and other modified humanoids from interfering, from lending support to allies if that is needed.

Yes. Power is in deep, deep trouble. (laughs)

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

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B Free is the fourth 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

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More Early Tools

By Cynthia Sax on November 29, 2021

These tools, displayed in the Altos de Chavon Regional Museum of Archaeology in La Romana, Dominican Republic, are made of stone and seem to be designed to be gripped by one hand.

This tool resembles a hatchet.

This tool looks like it could be used to smack the sh*t out of something or someone. (grins)

As Quinn says, “Stab the bad beings with the pointy end.”

I have no idea what this tool would be used for. It resembles a shark tooth.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth 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

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Cyborgs And Resilience

By Cynthia Sax on November 22, 2021

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I spotted this plant in our travels.

It was growing in a tiny crack in the sidewalk. And it was not only surviving. It was thriving. The plant, a weed some people might call it, was almost as tall as my knees and it is baring fruit/seeds! Look at how healthy and strong it is!

It reminds me of the cyborgs. They weren’t given the best start. The Humanoid Alliance, their manufacturers, hurt them in all the ways a being could be hurt.

Yet they survived. They escaped. They are now thriving. They’re finding lasting love, manufacturing offspring, living their best lifespans.

That gives me hope for all of us. (big hugs)

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth 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

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B Free And Cyrano de Bergerac

By Cynthia Sax on November 10, 2021

There is one scene in B Free, where B is hidden in the shadows and is talking with Quinn, that is a nod to Cyrano de Bergerac, the play by Edmond Rostand.

Quinn can’t see B, can only sense and hear him, but she is captured by his voice, his words. She is attracted to him, not knowing what he looks like or even what species he is.

And he likes this concealment. Because he views himself as being a monster, processes his appearance scares many beings. For a few moments, he can feel…normal, worthy of love.

I have always been fascinated with that aspect of Cyrano de Bergerac (the rest of the play tears my happy-ending-loving heart apart). Could we fall in love with someone without seeing them? Would their words be enough to enthrall our souls?

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth 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

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Fundamental Tools

By Cynthia Sax on November 9, 2021

Quinn, the heroine of B Free, escavates sites of early civilizations. There are some basic tools she is likely to uncover at every site, tools that beings require to survive.

These early tools were displayed in the Altos de Chavon Regional Museum of Archaeology in La Romana, Dominican Republic.

As per the sign…

“Igneri Ceramics And Tools

Igneri ceramics were very elaborate, adorned with white-on-red and red-on-orange designs and handles with animal and human forms.

Their most important tools were axes, scrapers, spoons, awls, and polishers.”

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth 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

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B Free, The Humanoid Alliance And Erasing History

By Cynthia Sax on November 6, 2021

“History is Written by Victors.”

(The futuristic version of this, used in B Free, is “History is recorded by the vanquishers.”)

This statement is often attributed to Winston Churchill but its true origins are ironically unknown.

Often when a civilization is ‘conquered’, it is erased and the victors’ culture, traditions, history is installed in its place. This is true here on Earth (it is STILL happening today) and it is true in the cyborg universe.

The Humanoid Alliance is infamous for this tactic. They not only delete the conquered beings’ history, they often kill all of them, leaving no one to relay it verbally.

Quinn, the heroine of B Free, specializes in excavating this lost history, both literally by unearthing deeply buried ancient objects and also figuratively by using her gift of psychometry to ‘see’ the past. Her goal is to ensure the voices of these conquered beings are heard.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth 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

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B Free And Moll

By Cynthia Sax on November 5, 2021

Quinn, the heroine of B Free, has a nemesis named Moll.

Here is the first mention of Moll.

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“Did Moll hire you?” Quinn moved closer to the mystery male. “That artifact-thieving, derivative work-creating, daughter of a scrap-heap tender.” The female was her most fierce competitor for research materials. “I should have hit her in the sources when I last saw her.”

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Moll never appears on the page in B Free but Quinn refers to her a few times.

Moll is nod to Moll Cutpurse (born Mary Frith), a 17^th century thief, highway robber, pimp (procuring both men and women for clients), fence and overall esteemed member of the London Underground.

Moll Cutpurse dressed like a male, smoked a pipe and could outswear almost everyone. She adored her parrots and her doggies. Her doggies each had their own bed and she prepared their food herself.

Moll Cutpurse was an original being and, if I had any gift at all for historical fiction, I would write a story based on her (it wouldn’t be a romance as sex and romance didn’t interest her). She wasn’t all good, not by anyone’s standards, (laughs) but she definitely had traits and stances I admire and she lived her life her own way.

I suspect Moll, Quinn’s nemesis, has some traits and stances I would admire also.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth 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

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Containers

By Cynthia Sax on November 2, 2021

I mention containers quite often in my stories…because beings everywhere have always had the need to contain things-liquids, food, objects. (grins)

These early containers, displayed in the Altos de Chavon Regional Museum of Archaeology in La Romana, Dominican Republic, served as inspiration for some of the containers Quinn studies in B Free.

This container was quite large. It could have easily held water for a family.

This container, in contrast, was quite small. It looks like a gravy boat. (grins)

This could be easily held with one hand.

This container looked to be single serving size also

This platter would be large enough to hold the roasted roots for an entire family in one of my stories.

As per the sign…

“Chicoid Ceramics 800-1500 A.D.

Chicoid pottery is a product of the mixture of ceramic styles of the previous period. It originated on the island of Santo Domingo and from there spread to the current territories of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Bahamas.

The objects show a high degree of craftmanship, with a variety of receptacle decorated with geometric motifs and animal forms.

Bowls with handles decorated with bat an owl faces are very common in Taino ceramics from the eastern region of the island of Santo Domingo.”

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth 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

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Neck Decorations

By Cynthia Sax on October 26, 2021

Neck decorations are often mentioned in my stories. Bettina aka Bait in Choosing Chuckles crafts them in her spare time.

Beings here on Earth have been decorating their bodies since…well…since forever.

These Taino necklaces, displayed in the Altos de Chavon Regional Museum of Archaeology in La Romana, Dominican Republic, are examples of how humans beautifully decorated their forms with locally located materials.

This necklace was crafted using all the same shells. Look at the exquisite detailing on the crafted holes.

This necklace was crafted with stone and feathers. The colors are amazing.

These beads are so very tiny. The pattern with the different colored beads are as finely wrought.

I think it says something about us that we’ve always created art. We’ve always expressed ourselves creatively. It is a core part of who we are as beings. It feeds a need deep down in our souls.

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B Free

B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.

Or so he believes.

Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.

When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.

She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.

Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.

***

B Free is the fourth 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

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