Sexy Snippets!

Another Sunday and another Sexy Snippets! When you're done reading mine, see what the other participants are offering. I'll bet they're juicy!
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The idea here is to post seven sexy sentences from your work. 


Today, I'm offering another 7 from my break-out novel Hermes Online -- a story of metamorphosis told in one perspective only that the reader can experience the transformation as it occurs. It's also a CataRomance Sensual Reads Reviewers' Choice Winner for Contemporary Romance. 
 
Setting the stage: This scene's conversation is done through an online chat and it's a challenge on the table. S dares Vivienne to steal his soul with her words. At this point, I think she already has.  :)


My 7: 

S: But, sweet angelic V, it will take much to bring me to my knees and convince me to hand over my soul.

V: Angelic? Existence is filled with dualities, and as mere mortals, we must admit there would be no light without the dark, or dark without the light. This duality of existence was created for a reason I think. It makes sex fluid and spectacular, for if not, then why does it dance upon our minds like it does? As a would-be devil I freely embrace the concept of light and dark...mmm, but I digress...

S: Empty threats, little demon, I see nothing yet...

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Here's the story

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Come see what's up Saturday and Sunday!

My Sexy Saturday & Sexy Snippets right here! Scroll back to see what you've missed.
 

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I'm in the Trifectra & Trifextra this week too
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Set the Scene in Six on Sunday

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Then come back mid-week and leave your best kiss for First Kiss Wednesday.

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 Love Waits in Unexpected Places

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Trifextra ~ a god in 33 words

It's time for the Trifextra -- a mini Trifecta challenge.

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(scroll down for My Sexy Saturday)

Here's how Trifextra works: Submit a writing in 33 words "about a god of your own devising that shares heaven with the other thirty-two gods"

about a god of your own devising that shares heaven with the other thirty-two gods - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/#sthash.SlIZby1y.dpuf

about a god of your own devising that shares heaven with the other thirty-two gods - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/#sthash.SlIZby1y.dpuf"

Here's mine:
Bedu sighed. Tossing another rune stave into the fire, he searched the rush-strewn floor and found seven more. Since Odin sacrificed himself for enlightenment and hung from Yggdrasill’s branches, his runes littered Valhalla.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Nothos

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Come see what's up Saturday and Sunday!

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Seductive Studs& Sirens & Weekend Writing Warriors 

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And while you're there,
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>>AUTHOR PROMO OP<<

Set the Scene in Six on Sunday

Come share your six-sentence backdrop or lead-up in comments!
http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/  
Then come back mid-week and leave your best kiss for First Kiss Wednesday.

 ~*~ ~*~ ~*~

 Love Waits in Unexpected Places

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Trifecta ~ Craft

It's time for another Trifecta and I'm joining in again. Click here for participants.

Here's how it works: Submit a writing between 33 and 333 word using this week’s one-word prompt:

CRAFT (noun)skill in deceiving to gain an end <used craft and guile to close the deal>

I just happen to have such a use of the word in Dreamscape. Written in homage to Agatha Christie, Dreamscape is a haunting, a murder, a thriller, a mystery, and a love story that transcends time. Above all, this sensual tale is a reader's Easter egg hunt in the truest sense. Not everything is as it appears. Peppered throughout are little clues suggesting a story running behind the scenes. Finding them isn't necessary to the telling of the tale, just one of the fun twists I like to insert into my writing. Can you find them all before the story ends? But more importantly, can a ghost find love among the living?

Setting the stage:
In this scene, the ghost of Dr. Jason Bowen ponders how he came to be, and the gullibility that led him there.

Craft in 287 words:

When they met she’d been such a sweet and shy little beauty. That shyness, he’d come to learn, was part of their treachery – nothing but cunning craft. When she comforted him over the untimely death of his father, he’d been surprised by how quickly he fell head over heels. Seeking to win her timid heart and encourage the comfort that would eventually lead his wife into his bed, he gave into Cathy’s every whim. No more than two months had passed before he was compelled to offer her marriage. No more than four before he found himself dead with his spirit walking the halls.

He played the details of their courtship over and over in his mind, for what else was there to occupy his thoughts? Cathy Ames had accepted his proposal eagerly, despite her less-than-enthusiastic response to his advances. These always met with a cool reserve he erroneously mistook for maidenly shyness. But Cathy didn’t possess a shy bone in her body. No, far from it. He’d seen them together in bed, his wife and his murderer. Seen for himself the eager way she clutched Richard Mason’s body to hers and treated him to a carnal knowledge obviously developed from years of knowing. Not only did it shock his senses to see his shy wife play whore and play it well, it sickened him. What a fool he’d been. Unable to stomach the sight of them, he kept to the only room they never visited—the cupola at the top of the house—and decades passed there with little concern, because time ceased to have meaning for the dead. Yes, they continued on with their merry lives, raised their foul brood, and got away with murder.

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"Humor and sensuality shine through in this story." "Lush and lyrical describe the prose -- hot and sumptuous the love scenes." "While you're reading Dreamscape, you'll come up with happily ever after theories. You'll desperately want to so these two people can triumph over death. My advice? Just read and enjoy the ride to the end. I had my thoughts, and they were wrong. The real ending is a wonderful surprise. Just let it be, and live in the Dreamscape."
~Author Jane Leopold Quinn

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Trifextra

It's time for the Trifextra -- a mini Trifecta challenge. 
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Here's how it works: Submit a writing in 33 words that compliments the prompt from Maggie Stiefvater. In this case, the first sentence in the paragraph.

Here's mine:
It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die. Sightless Malqui’s gnarled fingers ran the strings to feel quipu’s knots and became certain of the accounting. Yes, one death today. Apu Illapu the rain god demanded it, and so it would be.

The Incan Quipu

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Then come back mid-week for First Kiss Wednesday

And share your best juicy kisses.

~*~*~*~

Love Waits in Unexpected Places

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Trifextra ~ beast

It's time for the Trifextra -- a mini Trifecta challenge. 
 Click here for participants.

Here's how it works: Submit a writing about a beast in an unusual place in 33 words.

Here's mine:

After days of precise chews, holes became footholds when the cardboard tube stood in the corner. Now on the other side of the terrarium, his saber-toothed grin widened. They called him a Hamster!

 

Happy Halloween!

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Come see what's up this weekend.

Sexy Snippets and My Sexy Saturday right here!

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>>AUTHOR PROMO OP!<<

Set the Scene in Six on Sunday

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~*~*~*~

Love Waits in Unexpected Places

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Trifecta ~ Phantom

It's time for another Trifecta and I'm joining in again. Click here for participants.

Here's how it works: Submit a writing between 33 and 333 word using this week’s one-word prompt:

Phantom: a representation of something abstract, ideal, or incorporeal

I just happen to have phantom in a snippet from book 2 in my award-winning love story ~
Loving Leonardo - The Quest

Setting the stage:
In this scene, my trio face the typical autumn season’s strong ocean current through the Strait of Gibraltar but head into the arms of a substantial North Atlantic storm. Ellie and Luca are overjoyed at the power of it. Nicolas is seasick.

Phantom:
Clutching an empty flower urn should I have need to fill it, I took to the settee and watched my overjoyed companions through the open door of our starboard balcony. In my opinion, Prospero himself would have found this passing too much, but they stood at the rail outlined by the pending wrath of Neptune and thoroughly enjoyed the wild wind and roiling waves. Conversely, I clung to my cushion and damp washcloth. 

Although the balcony possessed a high lattice to keep guests from tumbling into the drink, I felt an honest fear that had nothing whatsoever to do with the storm. I hadn’t voiced it to either of them, but I felt an increasing sense of unease, an unaccountable prickling at the nape of my neck as if something terrible was about to happen. I’d had several nightmares since Ellie’s abduction and Luca’s encounter with the fanatical Bruno, disturbing phantoms that jarred me awake and left me unsettled. 

I thought about that. Recurring nightmares plagued my youth but tapered off as I matured. Through these bad dreams, I had relived the accident that made me an orphan. I was just a boy when my parents and nanny died during our holiday in Brighton. I don’t know what spooked the horses that day, but they ran wildly and my mother screamed as I fell through the tumbling coach door. I also remembered the incredible pain as my small body landed and my arm and leg bones snapped. 

That childhood trauma had revisited my dreams over the past several nights, and my adult mind lent an additionally horrific reality each time. In one, I came home to find all I knew and loved gone.  Waking in a sweat, I found myself wondering if Bruno had died in the fall as we supposed. We hadn’t checked for a pulse, we'd simply assumed. It was getting so I dreaded closing my eyes. 

Loving Leonardo books 1 & 2 ~
A Victorian polyamorous love story with a touch of reader-interactive art history.

"This is a most delicious read, and I certainly hope we see more of these three lovers in the near future."

~Coffee Time Romance & More 

<>o<><>o<><>o<>

Rose Anderson ~ You'll LOVE Reading Rose

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Salon Blog:
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Exquisite Quills:
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Exquisite Quills Yahoo Group: (NEW!) Open to readers and writers
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Romance Books '4' Us:

I'm a featured blogger the 4th of every month
Many great topics there. (NEW!)
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Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Rose-Anderson

I'll happily sign all ebooks with Authorgraph. 

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