Across a Sea of Stars by Michael
E. Gonzales – February, 2018 #blogabookscene #Spaceopera #PrairieRosePub
@PrairieRosePub #FireStarPress
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themed blogging endeavor from a group of authors who love to share excerpts
from their stories. Find us on Twitter with the hashtag #blogabookscene and #PrairieRosePub.
My third novel, Across a Sea of
Stars, is now available, and I can’t tell you how excited I am. I hope everyone
who reads my story enjoys it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Almost all the main characters are
based on actual people I have known, some I served with. I miss the time I
spent on Nazer, and hopefully, you
will too.
February’s theme is All you need is love. The excerpt below is from my Science-Fiction
novel, Across a Sea of Stars.
EXCERPT:
"Wow."
Cris said.
"Is
that an oath?" Tattie asked.
"No—it's
just—wow. The moonlight off your face is really bewitching,"
"You
think me a Sorgina?"
"No,
Tattie, I—"
"You
think I've cast a spell on you?"
"I
didn't say—"
"Then
I'll have to break that spell, won't I?"
Her
arms slowly encircled his neck and she kissed him, pulling her body into his.
His arms, slowly at first, engulfed her. In their embrace, they slowly sank
below the water. Cris hardly noticed. The warmth she brought now exploded
inside him. He felt a joy he'd never known, he felt stirrings deep inside his
soul that he had never felt or even imagined possible. His desire for her was
bound to another feeling he did not recognize; their combined heat melted the
two emotions, and together they combined into one. The seething heat of his
passion fired a furnace within him that powered a new engine whose pistons
hammered in his chest and in his mind.
The
water around them seemed to boil and a light formed where their breasts met.
The light grew in intensity until the entire pool was aglow.
Tattie
and Cris were both blinded by the light's brilliance. Their eyes closed tight,
but their lips never parted and the water seemed to evaporate around them. Then
the rocks, the forest, and the planet itself all dissolved until they floated
free in a swirl of stars. A yellow light ripped the firmament apart and Cris's
eyes opened. It was dawn and he and Tattie lay naked upon the water's edge,
where they had slept.
Across a Sea of Stars is available on Amazon.
Images by Mike
Gonzales, one by NASA.
Next
month’s theme, “Beware the Ides of March."
Until
then,
Mike
Michael E. Gonzales
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