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Small Tasks Count

By Cynthia Sax on August 28, 2021

In Baring Grudge, Taelyn, the heroine, blows up Humanoid Alliance space stations. That’s a huge, bold, courageous task to take on.

She also tells a confidence-battered girl she’s a bada$$. That’s a quieter, quicker task to accomplish. But it also matters. That declaration changed Jasny’s life a bit. It changed the world a bit.

Here on Earth, we’re going through some challenges.

There are folks who are doing BIG things. They’re auctioning their Olympic medals to pay for a child’s surgery. They’re dedicating all their spare time to saving species. They’re battling mobs to save lives during a pandemic.

But there are also people doing smaller things. They’re picking up a piece of garbage when they visit a nearby park. They’re bringing the homeless woman on the corner a cold bottle of water on a hot, smoky day. They’re donating a dollar to plant a tree. They’re sending their kids to school with extra superhero-themed masks to give to classmates.

All these things matter. All these things make the world a better place.

Don’t discount the small things. They can make a difference. YOU can make a difference.

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Baring Grudge

No one in the universe is more determined than a cyborg warrior tracking his female.

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Grudge, a C Model cyborg, has been assigned a mission – safeguard a Humanoid Alliance space station for his kind. Honor was once all he had, and he is determined to fulfill his duty.

That resolve is tested when a tiny human female enters the space station and sets the prettiest little explosives the warrior has ever seen. She is Grudge’s genetic match, the one being manufactured for him. He wants to touch her, kiss her, claim her in all ways, but first he has to stop her from blasting him into the next galaxy.

Taelyn has a self-appointed mission—to destroy every battle robot the Humanoid Alliance has ever manufactured. A huge gray-skinned, blue-eyed cyborg warrior with mismatched arms won’t prevent her from achieving her goal. She’ll escape him, leaving destruction in her wake.

Before she departs, she’ll experience one toe-curling moment of hatred-edged passion with her handsome foe. She’ll show him how skilled with detonations she truly is. He will have his universe rocked.

Then she’ll disappear.

Her cyborg, however, has no intention of ever letting her go.

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

It features a determined, damaged warrior, an equally resolute human female, and an explosive game of predator and prey played across galaxies.

Baring Grudge is the third 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 Mysterious Insects

By Cynthia Sax on July 20, 2021

When I was a kid, I was fascinated with insects. I would watch ants gather food, chase butterflies, move worms from drying sidewalks back to the safer-for-them grass. Much to my Awesome Mom’s dismay, I would also fill coffee tins with ants and beetles and store them under my bed. Yes, I was THAT kid. (grins)

I’m still fascinated with insects today. Our corner of the universe has been heating up recently and that means insects are migrating from the more southern regions. These are new-to-me insects and I’ve been enjoying looking at them and identifying them (photo recognition makes this SO much easier).

Insects exist in the cyborg world also. When we meet Rage in Releasing Rage, he and the other cyborgs are fighting the Mantidae, giant migrating praying mantis-resembling insects. There are insects on almost every planet the cyborgs explore, including Carine E, the home of Kralj from Dark Thoughts.

Insects are a part of our universe. I expect we’ll find alien insects on other planets. I’ll enjoy looking at those also, adding them to my mental collection.

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