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Seer's Blood


Strangers in Shadow Hollers. . .

       Steeling herself, Blaine crept in above the strangers' camp, heading for a clump of rhododendrons with last year's limp, leaves hanging down like wept tears. Moving with painful slowness, glad for her dull brown clothes and the perpetual dampness of late spring leaf-cover on the ground, she finally got close enough to take a good look. Oh, my. So many of them!
        Three times as many as the last time she had been here. And not one of them had come to talk to her daddy, head of the closest homestead to their camp.
        Most of the men were just waking. Only a few were up, crouching to stir faded fires into flame. Hunkered in above the slight scoop in the terrain that held the camp, Blaine made herself very still while her gaze skipped over the normal camp activities and settled in on the flurry of movement just below her. She wasn't expecting what she found; it took a moment to sort out the details, to realize what she saw--that the lump on the ground between four of the strangers was a man, that the funny noise was his choked cry of pain.
        That the man was Dacey.
         She gasped; she couldn't help it. Tied at the wrists and ankles and perched haphazardly against a rotted-out sycamore, Dacey answered their murmured questions with a single shake of his head, sending his untrimmed bangs into his eyes. Blaine winced as one of the men backhanded him. The trickle of blood dripping down his chin followed a path already forged, and his face held a storybook of bruises.
        The strangers weren't passing through. Weren't here for trade.
        They were here for trouble.

©2000 Doranna Durgin
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Star Trek: The Next Generation #60
Tooth and Claw


      Enough! Akarr moved to the empty co-pilot's seat, his balance unhampered by the shuddering ship. He took one look at Riker's grim expression--these humans were hard enough to read, never mind the fact that this one had unusually patterned hair on his face--and demanded, "What's happening?"
       Riker didn't look up from the shuttle console; his fingers flew over controls that meant nothing to Akarr. "Trouble," he said shortly, and then swore, abruptly shifting to reach the console in front of Akarr. The shuttle lurched, straightened, and lurched again.
       Akarr drew back just enough to keep from hindering his pilot, but not so far that he couldn't see out the view port, where the trees seemed to be rising at an alarming rate. Something scraped the bottom of the shuttle, tilting them.
       "Sit back," Riker said, intent on the controls. "And hang on."

©2000 Paramount Pictures

Due to the different restrictions on distributing material copyrighted to Paramount, I've got this chapter up in HTML format here on the site.

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A Feral Darkness


Darkness in the pasture. . .

       Brenna glanced again at the sky--could she get home before dark?--and at Parker, trying to gauge him. What he might do if she simply got to her feet and left him there.
       What could he do? He was stuck on the other side of the creek.
       And that's when Druid whined. His fearful whine, the warning whine. Reminding her that while she was out of Parker's reach, the darkness--the rising power--had no such boundaries. "Shhh," she said, even as she dreaded what might happen next. What did happen next.
        That trickle of breath-sucking fear she'd finally come to recognize. The hair standing up on the back of her neck, goosebumping down her arms. The breeze rising, lifting the strands of her long thick hair, then roaring across the bottom of the pasture like a tornado.
        Heading straight for her.

©2000 Doranna Durgin
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Earth: Final Conflict--Heritage


(Doesn't have a teaser yet--straight to the excerpt files!

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