Gardening – 3 Weeks Until Transplanting Outside

By Cynthia Sax on April 24, 2024

The tomato, marigold and pepper plants are growing happily in the basement grow station.

I grew extra plants because…squirrels. (shakes head and grins) They love to dig up newly transplanted plants. For no real reason except it entertains them. I have spare plants in case I lose a few.

Transplanting won’t happen for another 3 weeks. That is the expected last frost date in our corner of the universe.

I’ve also started beans and squash and am waiting for them to germinate.

The grow station is packed. I find that super exciting. (beams)

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Strike Zone

A cyborg devoted to duty…and to her.

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While attending a party, Kesser, the daughter of her planet’s leader, witnesses the abduction of her best friend and her best friend’s mate.

She’s determined to rescue them. Preferably without fracturing the fragile peace agreement her mom has crafted with the abductors’ planet.

The only issue is…she has never participated in a retrieval mission.

Searching for assistance, she approaches the mate’s guard. The male, with his big broad shoulders and deep growly voice, affects her like no other being ever has.

Kesser wants him. She trusts him. And she requires his stealth combat skills.

Desperately.

Strike is no guard. The D Model cyborg has been sent to the sector to discreetly investigate a potential planet-destroying situation.

When a curvy human female with big brown eyes requests his help with a rescue, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. She’s his genetic match, the one being he was manufactured to protect.

She’s also traveling to the next planet he has to search. He plans to claim his female while he fulfills his responsibilities to his kind.

Neither Strike nor Kesser realizes the dangers facing them are far greater than they imagine. Their enemies are converging, and one failed mission could doom the entire universe.

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Strike Zone is a standalone, mistaken-identity, Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

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The Garden Is Winding Down

By Cynthia Sax on August 30, 2023

My part of the world has been experiencing significant below seasonal temperatures.

The plants in the garden plus the trees, the insects, the birds and other life, believe it is November or late Autumn/Fall. They are slowing down or, in the case of the watermelon, stopping growth. Leaves are turning yellow or orange or red. They’re ready for a break.

We have enough tomatoes on the vines to supply us for the year. Once they turn red, we’ll cut them up and freeze them.

We only got 2 bell peppers from our gazillion plants this year. But that’s okay. We’ll buy a box from a local farmer, cut those bell peppers up and freeze them also.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby’s dream of his own watermelon patch will have to wait to come true next year. (smiles) That will give us a challenge in 2024.


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Strive For Forever


This cyborg seeks to vanquish an ancient entity and save his curvy human female.

Euryale made a terrible mistake. She opened a container she shouldn’t have touched and released one of the oldest lifeforms in existence. That all-powerful entity is now utilizing her as its host body and is slowly draining her energy.

Soon, she’ll die.

Euryale has accepted this fate and is determined to use her remaining moments in the universe to save as many lives as she can.

Her plans do NOT include a smoldering-hot, poetry-wielding cyborg willing to decimate entire planets to save her.

While under the control of the Humanoid Alliance, Strive, a K Model cyborg, disobeyed direct orders and refused to kill on their behalf. If he hadn’t escaped their cruel clutches, his defiance would have led to his death.

The male knowingly risked that fate to save the lifespans of complete strangers.

There is nothing he wouldn’t do to protect Euryale. The curvy human female is his genetic match, the one being he is destined to defend.

And she is in danger.

Strive would break every vow, cross every boundary, risk absolutely everything to keep her from harm.

Including battle a deity no one has ever defeated.

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Strive For Forever is Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features an inspired cyborg, a joke-cracking scientist, and an all-powerful deity with plans of his own.

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Bringing Seedlings Outside

By Cynthia Sax on May 10, 2023

I’m looking at the weather forecasts for the next two weeks and I see NO frost. Yay!

The plants are going outside.

The marigolds will be the first seedlings transplanted. I use them as a border around the vegetable garden. I’m told they ward off the bad bugs like slugs and snails (we have SO many snails – I love them but not in the garden).

I will also be sowing zinnia seeds. I sowed some last month but then we got cold temperatures and none of them sprouted. I’ll try again this week. (I harvested the zinnia seeds from last year’s blooms and have a gazillion of them. So losing a few wasn’t THAT painful.)

The tomatoes and the bell peppers will be likely go out en masse next week.


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Raw Desires

His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.


Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.


Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.

Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.

All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.

Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.

The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.

The cyborg will die.


Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

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Preparing For First Frost

By Cynthia Sax on September 30, 2022

First frost in my corner of the universe is within the first two weeks in October. When that occurs, my tomato plants and my bell pepper plants will die and all the fruit remaining on those plants will spoil.

I don’t know when first frost will truly be. Weather predictions have been wrong in the past.

So I’m picking quite a few of the larger tomatoes while they are green and bringing them inside the house. I place them in shallow cardboard boxes (thank you, chocolate and book deliveries- grins) and will monitor them, waiting for them to ripen.

It takes almost a month for a completely green tomato to ripen inside our house. That means we’ll have fresh tomatoes during the entire month of October, which is AWESOME.

I’m also picking the bell peppers. They remain green and they would be considered a small green pepper in the grocery store but hey, they taste great!

(Next year, I’ll start the bell peppers earlier. I added them to the gardening mix at the last minute this year.)

I’m super happy with the veggie garden this year. I’ll definitely have one again next year.

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Provoking Odium

A Beautiful Cyborg

While accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board their ship to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to her flying abilities, her fearlessness, and her scarred countenance. Her verbal-only relationship with the sexy cyborg who answers her distress call is a steamy yet short-lived fantasy. His kind is physically perfect, and she is…not. He will uncover that truth when…if they survive the attack upon her freighter.


Provoking Odium is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features a human female intent on remaining mysterious, a cyborg warrior determined to uncover her identity, and an enemy seeking to destroy them both before they have the opportunity to meet.

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