The next novel in the regular series is going, but slowly. So I thought to keep my skills up and use time wisely I should write some short stories. I’ve got a lot of tidbits and starts. So a quick poll of my readers of which opening line or prospective title I should pursue first:
- The world doesn’t care about. Me, neither. We are all replaceable!
- Missouri Compromise
- Lean on
- Usually when someone says “a specter walked in,” they are being metaphorical.
- Black Knighting
- Komenagen: Scoring a Four
- Battles for Boys: Marathon
- Battles for Boys: Salamis
- Battle for Boys: Trafalgar
- Cruise-control Cruise-missile
- Light Ambush
- “It’s a fine line between paranoia and situational awareness.”
If any of you have a fine opening line you’d like to toss into contentions, I’ll see what I can do with it.
Personally anything in your same universe as “The Stars Came Back”.
Otherwise, in order,
11 , 10, 1, 12 …
they are all intriguing though.
Good luck!
Ironic, since none of those items you mentioned were expected to be place in the same universe. 🙂
10 sounds interesting. So does 4 — suggests something like when Neil Smith went well off his usual sort of setting with “Sweeter than Wine” (which is very good, by the way).
Gonna go with the “anything” line right now.
I look forward to anything in the stars came back verse.