Little Lacey Chapter 6 #SaturdayScenes

Lacey was on her knees. The rabbit screamed, pinned under her claw-like grip. Lacey’s lips were drawn back, fangs exposed, mouth thrusting toward the pitiful creature.

What was she doing?

She jerked her hands away, and sat back. Pine trees surrounded her, their bare trunks like stilts holding the thick canopy high above. Hardly any light filtered down through the dense criss-crossing of boughs and needles.

“Where am I?” she whispered.

But Lacey knew where she was. The Wish Wood.

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©2013 Amanda June Hagarty. 

Clean Slate: A Novelette by Amanda June Hagarty

Clean Slate: A Novelette by Amanda June Hagarty

Something waits for him in the darkness.

Since he woke up on a mortuary slab in Victorian London's East End, Leland has been on the run trying to stay ahead of the demon darkness, and trying to make sense of the jumble in his head.

Who is he? Why is this happening to him? How are the gaslights in the street both a modern convenience and terribly antiquated to him at the same tome? Nothing seems right, nothing fits.

Now he stands at the end of a pier in some Northwestern fishing village and there is nowhere left to run. The answers are catching up to him, but so is the darkness.

Genre: Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel
36 pages

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Memories of Light: A post-apocalyptic story of Bellingham 100 years in the future

I held that pose at the Spark Museum
for fifteen minutes!

This is a short serial science fiction which I participated in for the Bellingham Herald.

Chapter one by +Larry Goolsby   

Chapter two by +Tina Shelton

Chapter three by +Andy Brim

Chapter four by +Mary Schleinkofer

Chapter five by +Amanda June Hagarty (ME!)

Chapter six by +Robert Slater

The story:
Bellingham. 100 years in the future. It rains—a lot. The world is a bleak place, where Rocket Donuts is partially submerged and a strict council controls the city. People fear technology and the devastation it brings. Tanner is a boy running the wild streets of Bellingham, pushing the limits of the councils rules, and yet fearing the punishments of the work camps that killed his father. When he catches a glimpse of the past, he realizes there is more to living than just fear.

The experience:
It all started when I noticed that this year's summer serial in the Bellingham Herald was going to be Science Fiction. This is a serial fiction in which six writers are chosen to write six chapters of 800 words each in a specific genre, chosen each year by the Herald's Dean Kahn. I have a friend who did it the previous year when it was Fantasy, which I missed out on because I was still relatively new in town. But since last year I have made a bunch of new friends, who know what genres I like to write, and they all made sure to give me the heads up when the call went out for this year's writers. I sent in my writing sample and story synopsis, and was thrilled to hear I was accepted as one of the lucky six.

Flash Figs and Fun

     "Oooh, look at that," Hailey's eyes were wide as if she was perusing a treasure chest.

     Jim was holding a fat red tomato and a vaguely pear shaped alien fruit he said was a fig. Gifts from a client's garden.

     "That tomato is gonna make a yummy sandwich I think," said Hailey, "But what do we do with one fig?" She thought back to a recipe she had seen in one of her cook books for 'drunken' figs, but she was pretty sure that it called for more than just one.

     "Eat it," said Jim. "Haven't you ever eaten a fig?"

     "I ate a Fig Newton once," she said, scrunching her nose. "It was gross."

     He laughed.

©2013 Amanda June Hagarty. 

The Werecat's Dilemma

Meemu twitched his tail in agitation as he waited for his new "helper" to catch up. Though he wasn't sure how much help it was going to be.

"You're a great big noisy thing, aren't you?" Meemu called behind him.

"Yes, master." The bot lumbered forward with the stealth of an elephant in a china factory. Creakscrankcreakscrank.

Terrina is either losing her mind, or losing her faith in me. Meemu sat down and cleaned his whiskers. This was going to seriously mess with his mojo.