Today’s SSS is an extract from ‘A Vengeance of Angels’. Again, it contains a mild spoiler if you haven’t read the first story; A Construct of Angels.’ So if you don’t want to know how the first book ends, please look away now.
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Michael, now an ex-angel and mortal being, is being addressed by an elderly hospice patient – one who has a reputation as a seer…
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Agatha Carpenter waved a bony finger at me and I felt the chill of one whose fate is irrevocably sealed. I’d felt it before – as a doomed gladiator, as a convicted witch, as a Jew amongst the Nazis…
“The black swordsman is falling to Earth!” she wailed in a voice edged with hysteria. “He seeks the one who shines most brightly – and all around him shall perish!”
I knew a moment of panic.
She could only be referring to one person; one Anakim…and he was coming for me.
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Write on!
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Feb 12, 2013 @ 22:28:30
I def dont want to know how the first book ends yet! I looked away. However, I am excited to start reading the book. Glad to have someone new to follow too 🙂
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Feb 10, 2013 @ 15:58:21
Ahhh I can’t read any of that (I’m currently reading Construct, and thoroughly enjoying it!)
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Feb 10, 2013 @ 20:07:40
Aw, thank you…
I hpe you like it as much as I liked The Cylinder (part 1). Eagerly awaiting part 2 😀
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Feb 10, 2013 @ 00:18:59
Oh boy, thanks for the spolier alert… but I think you know what my eyes went ahead and did anyway… even though my brain was shouting NO!
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Feb 10, 2013 @ 20:08:31
I know…eyes do that. it’s part of our simian ‘be curious’ programming.
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Feb 12, 2013 @ 01:13:04
Had to refer to dictionary.com before I could reply and now I’m laughing cause I’m thinking – this little monkey can use her opposing thumbs to access Google! I’m only as slow as my internet connection. Ha ha.
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Feb 12, 2013 @ 18:04:34
Gary Barlow wrote a line ‘The monkeys learned to build machines’ which puts the human race into perfect perspective. It makes me smile every time I hear his song (Kidz).
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Feb 13, 2013 @ 05:28:00
Oh, I love that. I work at a preschool and some of the parents are so keen for their children to learn to read – they push and push. I always think of KoKo the Gorilla! Reading is not a measure of intelligence… but writing is! Wink!!!
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Feb 13, 2013 @ 07:44:16
I never thought of it that way. Writing is definitely a sign of intelligence – and imagination.
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Feb 13, 2013 @ 11:23:41
Aha! And you know what else… just read an article on how fiction raises your emotional intelligence!
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