In Holding Hoarse, Hoarse and Arlicia create soft-formed dolls or ulus from new materials. The original rag dolls here on Earth, however, were made from exactly that—rags.
Rags are inexpensive. Everyone has clothing that has worn out.
But they are also meaningful because often those clothes meant something to the maker and to the recipient.
When my Granddad died, for example, my Grandma made simple ragdolls from his worn-out dress shirts and gave them to her then very much grown children. My Awesome Mom still takes out that doll to this day and touches and smells it whenever she is missing her parents.
My craftsy Grandma was also a superb chocolate chip cookie maker. She would make rag dolls from the cloth flour bags. She gave those to all the kids in her life and we loved them.
There are a gazillion ways to make rag dolls. These methods range from simple, fast and easy, requiring very little skills to complicated and time-involving, requiring sewing skills.
One of the easiest, quickest, no skills required rag doll my Grandma would make (and we would all love) consisted of…
Forming a ball with some tiny scraps of fabric.
Wrapping a larger piece of fabric around that ‘head’ and securing it with a piece of yarn or string or elastic.
Using a pen or marker to make eyes, a nose, a mouth. (She would add hair and other details if she had the time or energy.)
The rest of the fabric was the body. (She would sometimes layer different fabrics with the palest piece on top and that would make the body fancier.)
Bam. She had a doll to give to a grandchild.
She had also created love.
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Holding Hoarse
This cyborg warrior WILL become worthy of love.
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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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