Good day! Here’s another taste of Made For Her, an erotic science fiction romance.
This excerpt follows immediately after last week’s.
When Mikayla switched the display to the live feed from Onatria’s main lab in Geneva, she cringed at the collective gasp. Robotic arms transferred material between petri dishes at various stations while other, more complex equipment dissected strains of DNA. Human-born and clones alike wore white lab coats and watched new life grow under their telescopes. And in a glass-walled clean room, casket-like clear chambers held young clones attached to a multitude of tubes. Except for the military and Onatria staff, this was the first time anyone had seen the labs. The government had grown desperate for people to enlist. Clones, fully incubated at one year, resembled a teenaged human-born and lived better than most of the people there to watch the presentation. That was, until the clones left the labs four years later. Then they became nothing more than a possession of the military, a weapon trained for combat. And none, as of yet, had developed long enough to resemble an officer her age. They were killed in battle or by rebel attacks before they had the chance to live a long life.
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Oh, the facts of the reality are always harsh to live with when they’re in your face. You are definitely drawing me in with this story. I want to read more.
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What an eeire world! Personally, I think it’s better to die in battle than live a long life in this setting. Great work with the details!
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Very interesting hook!
Reality is often harsh, isn’t it? Well done.
That’s a sad but intriguing hook.
Fantastic snippet. Gotta feel sorry for the clones, though.
This one really drew me in…great hook!
Interesting hook. Great job.
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This didn’t draw me in as much as some of your previous hooks, but still good! Did you want microscopes instead of telescopes? I would think they are looking at something small (micro) rather than far away (tele).
Angelica Dawson recently posted..#HDH Hump Day Hook – Gentleman
oh, that’s an intriguing and sad snippet.
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This world is especially frightening because it is what our world could become– or perhaps once was.– “god” making beings in a petri dish. It feels to me like such an abuse to use clones for military. I wonder if to them it’s no different that how we use dolphins or canines. It makes me want to know more.
Flossie Benton Rogers recently posted..Hump Day Hook
A very intriguing hook – well done!
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So….are we talking pimply-faced puberty teens or “can get it up in another 5 minutes” 18/19 year olds?
I hope for her sake it’s the latter!
(Did you mean microscopes instead of telescopes?)
Colette Saucier recently posted..Hump Day Hook 15
Excellently described hook
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Oh how terribly sad.
Lovely snippet though.
Elin Gregory recently posted..Happy Anti-Valentine’s Day
Gives me sad shivers just reading about it. I love the depth of world development you’ve put into this one!
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I just love your hooks! Very good… Interesting…
How sad and eerily portentous. Scary idea but so believable within the setting you’ve given it. Great world building.
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That is very disturbing! Well hooked
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Gripping hook, loved it
Why are clones always treated so poorly in literature and films? Don’t they have personalities and feelings, don’t they bleed like everyone else? This is a great excerpt. It definitely caught my attention. I want to know so much more about the clones and the war and how it all fits together.
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