My Awesome Mom And An Electric Toothbrush

By Cynthia Sax on October 19, 2024

While chatting with my Awesome Mom on the phone a few days ago, I asked her what she wanted for Christmas this year.

She thought about it for a while and then she said, “I’d like an electric toothbrush for Christmas.” She explained that her dentist suggested she get one and why.

I told her that was an easy present. She should consider it done.

I sent the Dear Wonderful Hubby an email adding an electric toothbrush to our shopping list.

Moments later, my Awesome Mom told me she might have already asked my eldest brother for one. She was a bit loopy after the dentist appointment and might have said something about ot.

I laughed and told her that was a bit more difficult but I’d reach out to him and ensure he hadn’t bought an electric toothbrush for her.

I sent an email to my eldest brother, copying the Dear Wonderful Hubby on it, asking if he made that purchase.

My Awesome Mom then added that she might have mentioned it to my middle sister also. She wasn’t sure. And she might have mentioned it to HER sister.

I laughed again and said I’d send out a group email and ensure she wasn’t getting 50 toothbrushes for Christmas.

My Awesome Mom laughed and said that might be best.

I sent the group email, copying the Dear Wonderful Hubby on it.

When the Dear Wonderful Hubby came home, he, of course, teased me about how his inbox was overflowing with a gazillion emails about electric toothbrushes. (grins)


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Claiming Cure

A proud cyborg medic meets his human match.

***

Cyra has tasks to complete before she dies.

There are patients to heal, a dangerous mission to undertake, and a world to save. She doesn’t have time to entertain uninvited guests.

Especially one coldhearted cyborg medic who thinks he’s better than her.

The male might be breathtakingly handsome. His sternly set lips might be extremely kissable. And his touch might draw out a passion she didn’t think she was capable of feeling.

But he’s also a distraction, one that might doom millions of innocent beings to a painful, horrible death.

Cure isn’t emotionless. He feels…greatly. Listening to that malfunction has caused other beings pain and suffering in the past.

He refuses to allow his desires to cloud his judgment now.

His resolve is tested when he’s forced to associate with the most provoking, alluring medic in the universe.

Cyra is his genetic match, the one being in the universe he is fated to protect, touch, claim. She’s clever and beautiful, and the need to hold her almost downs his systems.

But now is not the time to indulge his great wanting.

Cure has an assignment to complete.

If he fails to accomplish his goals, everyone he cares for, including his human female, will die.

***

Claiming Cure is a standalone Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features two skilled medics determined to ignore the toe-curling attraction between them, a perilous impossible mission, and foes seeking to ensure they never heal another being ever again.

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My Awesome Mom And Mom-In-Law

By Cynthia Sax on May 7, 2022

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day in North America.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are fortunate to have both our Moms still with us. (knock on wood)

I sent my Mom yellow roses (her favorites) and chocolate from a florist local to her. She knows the owner, went to school with him, and he always delivers the flowers himself. They have a good chat, which makes my Mom as happy as the roses and chocolate.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby will be bringing his Mom chocolate and cash. The cash will be rapidly redistributed to people and causes Awesome Mom-in-law feels need it more than she does. She has a generous soul…just like her son. (smiles)

I’m lucky to have two such wonderful women in my life and I hope you have wonderful women (including everyone who identifies as a woman) in your life also, whether they are biologically your Mom or Moms of the Heart, mentors you can learn from and love. (big hugs)

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Provoking Odium
(This book description is still unedited.)

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 the ship, to protect her.

A Human Female Others Call Beast

Briella gained her nickname due to not only her flying abilities and her fearlessness but also due to 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 before they have the opportunity to meet.

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Hot Cross Buns And My Awesome Mom

By Cynthia Sax on April 2, 2021

These are NOT my Awesome Mom’s hot cross buns but they kind of resemble them. This stock photo was taken by and indirectly purchased from  jackmac34

When I was growing up, we didn’t have much. Some days, we didn’t eat (yes, here in Canada). We didn’t have outdoor plumbing (we used an outhouse). We made our own fun.

Some family members are still living like this today.

But every year, on Good Friday, my Awesome Mom would make hot cross buns for everyone and I mean everyone. (grins) She made them for the entire village. Other folks would drop by. It didn’t matter what people believed, their religion or their views on the universe. It was a celebration for everyone, a way my Awesome Mom, having not much at all, would give back to the world.

We, of course, didn’t have the fancy ingredients. There was no candied fruit. These hot cross buns had raisins and were topped with the simplest of icings (mostly icing sugar and straight-from-the-cow milk).

But stars, those buns were good. We would stuff our little faces.

And we would realize how very lucky we were.

We might have been poor but folks came from all over to eat my Mom’s hot cross buns, raving about how good they were. That was something to be proud of, something to be grateful for.

I’m thinking of her today, thinking how lucky I am to know such a generous, giving woman. I will definitely be calling her later, once the hot cross bun baking is done.

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Under Strain

A damaged cyborg warrior is hunted by a peace-loving human female.

***

Strain is severely malfunctioning. The D Model cyborg was the sole survivor after a horrific decision was made by his cruel manufacturers. He hates all humans, and when he attacks one who is under his cyborg leader’s protection, he is reprimanded, stripped of his weapons, and told to watch and not actively participate in the next mission.

That mission takes place on a small remote planet. Its lush terrain should only be inhabited by the cyborgs they were sent to rescue, but Strain senses another presence on the surface. She is watching him, tracking him, hunting him.

A fully operational cyborg would end her lifespan.

Strain wants to claim her. Forever.

Kamyelle is the only one left of her kind. Warriors have killed the other nonviolent human inhabitants of her planet. She survived…barely…by hiding in the trees, observing her enemies, and covering herself with lifeform scan-concealing mud.

When a handsome, gray-skinned, brilliant-blue-eyed male arrives, surrounded by weapon-carrying warriors, she has to save him. Warriors harm and they kill. That is what they do.

She won’t allow them to hurt Strain.

***

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

It features a broken warrior, a human female who thinks he’s perfect, and velociraptor-like dinosaurs who view them both as light, tasty snacks.

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Reading Green Today

By Cynthia Sax on March 17, 2021

Many of my ancestors came to Canada from Ireland during the Potato Famine. Canada’s resources were swamped but they kept accepting immigrants because that was the humane thing to do. I’m grateful for that, grateful to the residents who opened their arms and their hearts to my ancestors.

My Grandma and Grandpa on my Mom’s side would do fun (and so not traditional) things on St. Patrick’s Day every year, ensuring we all knew about our roots and how lucky we were.

My Grandpa, a huge music lover, would play The Unicorn by The Irish Rovers. He would play the juice harp (that’s what he called it because he claimed it required a lot of spit – grins) along with the record. We would dance and sing.

My Grandma would make her famed potato buns, which we devoured in mass quantities and got our hands lightly slapped if we tried to sneak them.

We would all wear green. That, my Grandparents would tell us, would bring us luck in the upcoming year.

Today, I’m wearing green AND I will be reading romance novels with green covers.

If you’re looking to do the same, Being Green, a free short story is a great choice for a cyborg romance. Green isn’t actually green. He gave himself that name because he loves all vegetation, especially his beloved plant Windy.

Dark Strength is a great choice for an alien romance. Balvan is the great green gatekeeper of the Refuge, Kralj and Dita’s settlement.

I’m wishing you love and luck and happiness today and always. (big hugs)

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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.

Doctor Shelby Cooper is the sole resident of a tiny planet. She prefers to be alone rather than risk caring for another being and then losing him. The curvaceous scientist is determined to resist Green’s patient caresses, his thought-burning kisses, his slow seduction.

She has underestimated the power of a cyborg’s passion.

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The Case Of Awesome Mom And The Missing Books

By Cynthia Sax on August 8, 2020

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I’m fortunate to have an absolutely wonderful and so very entertaining Mom. Here is part of the conversation I had with her yesterday.

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Cynthia Sax: (on phone) Did you get the shipment of books on Wednesday?

Awesome Mom: No! I didn’t get any books. I thought you forgot about me.

Cynthia Sax: I’d never forget about you. (I send her a snail mail letter every week and call her at least once a week.) I’ll track it down with Amazon. It must have gone to the wrong address.

(2 hours later)

Awesome Mom: (calls back) I checked and no one has received my books.

Cynthia Sax: You checked with the mail room?

Awesome Mom: I checked with everyone. Sometimes my mail goes to (x apartment building) and (y house) and (relays a long and very specific list of addresses).  I called them and they haven’t seen it.

Cynthia Sax: (blinks) You called someone at (x apartment building)?

Awesome Mom: You can’t just call one person. (scoffs like I’m an amateur) I called the lady with my same apartment number and I called their mail room and I also talked with their maintenance staff. None of them have seen my books.

***

(grins) That’s my Mom.

She has NO internet access, doesn’t own a computer but she has a phone (a landline) and decades of experience watching CSI.

I suspect in a week she’ll have located the delivery person.

If her books are anywhere in her city, she’ll find them.

While she does that, Amazon is sending her replacement copies.

***

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Testing Truth

A fun-loving cyborg gets serious about love.

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Truth lives each moment as though it were his last. The cyborg warrior rushes into danger, teases beings he shouldn’t provoke, accepts every call of adventure he encounters.

When a prissy little human princess floats into the Rebel structure Truth is occupying, seeking a mercenary to assist her and her unusual entourage, he volunteers to be her warrior. She claims their assignment is dangerous, warns him he might not survive the task.

That is exactly the type of fun he has been seeking.

Princess Nanette of the planet Royaume must rescue her estranged brother from an enemy prison ship. That is her duty, and she has been trained to always place the needs of her planet and her subjects before her own. Nancy doesn’t have the freedom to indulge her passions for a certain dark-haired, gray-skinned cyborg. Not permanently and not publicly.

But she is unable to resist the warrior. Truth, with his laughing eyes, smiling lips, and rough hands, tempts her as no one else ever has. He could be her one fleeting act of rebellion before she’s matched with the powerful ruler her planet requires.

If they survive their current mission.

Their love is doomed. Their lifespans are at risk. This cyborg and his princess will need the help of every ally they have if they wish to see another sunrise.

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