Throwback Thursday – Defying Death
I think it is extremely fitting that the first story I’m featuring on this site in October, a month I associate with ghosts and spooky things, has a cyborg hero who named himself Death.
(grins)
Death does view himself as a bringer of death. He was manufactured to kill and that is all he believes he can do.
Until he meets a curvaceous human medic. She is intent on healing everyone around her…including Death himself.
Defying Death
He’ll risk it all for one moment of happiness.
Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.
Tifara is Death’s obsession, his sole opportunity for happiness, to express the all-consuming passion burning brightly inside him. He’ll do anything to obtain the curvaceous medic: defy a direct order, abduct Tifara from her battle station, and wage war on his fellow cyborgs.
To earn her love, he’ll have to risk much, much more.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
http://www.amazon.com/Defying-Death-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01D6OUQS2/
Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Defying-Death-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01D6OUQS2/
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Defying-Death-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01D6OUQS2/
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Defying-Death-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01D6OUQS2/
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/defying-death/id1095072277
Kobo:
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/defying-death-2
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Gardens Build
The first year the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I had our backyard garden, it looked a bit…bare. It was mostly tomato plants and marigolds and nothing was planted between those tomato plants.
The second year, we had the tomato plants and the marigolds but we also added raspberries a perennial and some perennial flowers and a few more annual vegetables.
The third year, the raspberries and the perennial flowers returned. We didn’t have to plant them. So instead, we planted some more perennials, along with the tomatoes, marigolds, and other annuals.
The fourth year, those perennials came back also. So we added more perennials.
Years later, our garden is quite full. We have a base of perennials that come back whether we’re out in the garden or not. And we also have some plants that self seed. (We need to manage that a bit better which I will talk about in another post.)
Gardens build. They become fuller every year.
If this is your first year gardening, don’t get discouraged. Your garden will likely be fuller next year!
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Do A Little Bit
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are privileged, over the years, to have obtained too much stuff.
We have decided to declutter, giving our excess to charities or loved ones, sharing our bounty.
This is a BIG job.
But it doesn’t feel that way.
Because we’re decluttering 3 items every day. That’s our easy-to-meet quota.
Life isn’t all or nothing.
We don’t have to write a novel in a day or plant a garden in an afternoon or do all the laundry all at once.
We can write 200 words a day, plant a couple seeds, throw one load in the washing machine.
Do a little bit and watch those little bits add up.
(smiles)
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Muse Food – Life Will Find A Way
If life is at all possible in a place, there will be a creature or plant or microbe or other being living there.
Moss grows on rocks in the middle of the rapids. A house spider lives in an otherwise sterile office. Microbes live their tiny lives on space stations. Heck, there are microbes on our faces right now (in our skin microbiome).
Our characters are never truly alone. And there’s always activity happening around them.
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – September 27
I continue to craft the first draft of the 9th installment of the Super Secret Project. I had to rewrite a bit of it. That happens. So I went ‘backwards.’
(smiles)
Some days or weeks or years, we do that – go backwards or, at least, we feel like it. And that’s okay. Life isn’t linear. We go forward. We go backward. We pause in place.
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) If there’s some task you feel you’ve gone backwards in, accept that. Relish the place you’re currently at. This isn’t a race. Or a chess board. We’re allowed to move in any direction we need to move.
Cyborg Sizzle Escape Omnibus
Half Man. Half Machine. All Theirs.
* * *
While these cyborg warriors battle to escape their cruel manufacturers, they find the human females they are destined to love for all eternity.
This omnibus includes the first seven stories in the Cyborg Sizzle series: Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor, Being Green, Crash And Burn, Defying Death, Chasing Mayhem and Jumping Barrel.
All of these Cyborg Romances are set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.
Releasing Rage
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.
Breathing Vapor
Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes.
He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter.
Being Green
Green, a cyborg warrior, cares for one being—his plant Windy. When Windy becomes sick, he’ll do anything to heal her, even venture across the universe to visit a worlds-renowned plant doctor.
He doesn’t expect to find love.
Crash And Burn
Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.
Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.
Defying Death
Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.
Chasing Mayhem
Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on.
Jumping Barrel
Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.
His female, however, is looking for a hero.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus/id1488934271
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/992060
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It’s Okay Not To Know Everything
We, humans, haven’t identified most of the tiny lifeforms living in a handful of soil.
We uncover new-to-us MUCH larger animals and plants and other lifeforms every dang day on the wonderful planet.
NONE of us know everything.
And it is okay to admit that.
It is okay…actually it is GREAT to say “I don’t know enough about this to talk about it so I’m going to listen and learn.”
That’s wise. And that’s powerful. And it’s freeing.
You can pick and choose what you gain knowledge about or become an expert in. And the task of gaining knowledge about everything else can be delegated to other people. They can share the load.
(smiles)
You will NEVER know everything. And that’s a wonderful thing!
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Tell Someone You Like Their Shirt/Blouse
The world has been…challenging lately for just about everyone.
So yesterday, I made it my mission to say something nice to as many people as possible.
I looked around a crowded resale store, for example, saw a lady in a pink floral blouse, told her I loved it.
Her face lit up. And her shoulders straightened.
She smiled and said thank you.
Bam. I made her day a tiny bit better.
Tell someone you like their shirt/blouse and watch as this changes their world for the better.
Yes, it is THAT easy to do.
And isn’t that an awesome superpower to have?
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Throwback Thursday – Dark Strength
He’s green, bald, the biggest male anyone has ever seen, and he enjoys crushing the skulls of his enemies under his massive boots. (He likes the sound that makes.)
He also rescues small vulnerable animals. And he is very gentle and kind and giving with the beings he loves.
Yep, Balvan, the hero of Dark Strength, is a complex being.
Which is good because Elyce, the human heroine, needs a complex being.
Dark Strength
The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall.
Balvan, the Refuge’s Gatekeeper, is huge, green, and has a reputation for crushing skulls. He’s a modified humanoid, genetically designed to be the ultimate warrior. One of a kind and considered monstrous by many, he never expects to find his mate, the one female meant for him.
Elyce, snatched from her home half a solar cycle ago, has finally escaped her brutal captors. She arrives at the Refuge barely alive. Only a blood transfusion from the largest male she has ever seen will save her life. But it will also bind her to him forever. Staring up, up, up at him, she wonders why she wants to be free. His gentle touch revives yearnings she thought dead. His lips set her skin ablaze. His massive muscles make her feel safe.
That feeling could be an illusion. Elyce’s captors want their slave back and they won’t stop until they have her. To give his mate her freedom, Balvan might be forced to give up everything he has – his role as the Gatekeeper, Elyce’s love, and his life.
Dark Strength is a STANDALONE Alien SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes violent universe.
Buy Now:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Strength-Refuge-Book-3-ebook/dp/B078SYYWH5/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Strength-Refuge-Book-3-ebook/dp/B078SYYWH5/
Amazon AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/Dark-Strength-Refuge-Book-3-ebook/dp/B078SYYWH5/
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/dark-strength/id1332249866
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/dark-strength
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/775942
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Gardening – Collecting Leaves And Preparing For Drought
I heard somewhere that 1 molecule of organic matter in our soil has the ability to hold onto 4 molecules of water.
Which is VERY good information to have.
Because the possibility of drought increases every year as climate change progresses.
And it is super easy and often free to add organic matter to the soil.
In my corner of the world, for example, leaves are plentiful. The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I collect as many as we can (from our yard and from the school yards) and we cover our garden beds with them. We also store them in the chicken wire ‘bins’ we’ve set up on a dark never-walked-upon part of the yard. They break down into gorgeous leaf mold. And we add leaves to our compost bins.
Kitchen vegetable and fruit waste can be turned into compost either in a compost bin or simply in a hole dug and afterwards covered up in the garden. This is simple and easy to do.
Used coffee grounds, obtained for free from neighborhood coffee shops, can be spread over lawns and garden beds and put in compost bins.
There are a gazillion free ways to add organic matter to our soil. And this could very much make the difference between our plants surviving or perishing next growing season.
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You Can Let It Go
We can’t fight every battle in existence in this wonderful world today.
That’s impossible.
There are too many battles waging. And we only have 24 hours in the day (here on Earth – if you’re reading this from another planet, your days might be longer. – grins).
We need to rest. And have peaceful moments in our lives.
So pick your battles.
If someone posts a terrible take on social media, for example, and it is not your area of expertise, consider scrolling past. Or blocking them. Or forming a rebuttal in your mind but not actually posting it (and having to deal with the responses).
Don’t do this with everything, of course. We have to fight for something. But save that energy, my friend, for the issues you really care about.
Your peace matters also. Protect it.
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