I have been a fan of author, Chris James for some time. How could I not? He’s a very good sci-fi writer! Anyway, when I read this blog post of his, I was intrigued to say the least. Read it and see for yourselves:
The Stranger and the Manuscript
I had the shock of my life a few days ago when I took the dogs for a walk in my local forest, only for a stranger to approach me and address me by name; in fact, by both my author name and my real name. Much greater shocks were to come later in our brief discussion.
Standing slightly less than average height, the Stranger wore lose-fitting black garb which hid all body contours, and the hood fitted quite tightly over the head and wrapped around it to obscure the chin, mouth and nose. Only two piercing blue eyes stared out at me. In addition, the pitch and timbre of the muffled voice gave no indication of this person’s sex; it could’ve been a female with a low voice or a male with a high voice. He/she spoke in a gender-neutral tone that would shortly become very frustrated with me.
My disorientation at being denied clues to this person’s identity was compounded by the reactions from my dogs. Normally they run and sniff everything in the forest. Crazy in particular never stops moving for a millisecond, and flies through life with a constant expression of wondrous stupidity on her ugly face (well, they say dogs take after their owners *sigh*). Now, however, I noticed that both dogs had become still, frozen…
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July 12th, 2016 at 4:34 am
Thank you! *hugs*
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July 12th, 2016 at 11:14 am
Very welcome. 🙂
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July 11th, 2016 at 11:56 am
Thx for the note on Chris James. Think after some years i will try again reading much more books in english language. (with Google translator on top ;-)) Have a nice week. Yours, mwz
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July 11th, 2016 at 8:19 pm
I wish I could read ANY other language as well as you do English. 🙂
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July 14th, 2016 at 6:53 am
Hello, thank you so much! Your praise shames me. If someone, like me is equipped from birth with a dialect that sounds like the barking of dogs;-), I am pleased beeing able to read and understand another active language as my mothers tongue. 😉
Have a very nice day in … australia?
mwz
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July 14th, 2016 at 8:34 am
Thank you mwz, and yes, Australia. 🙂
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July 11th, 2016 at 11:53 am
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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