For Your Review: Wendy the Whippet submits a snippet of her WIP.
“What did you say?” Zoë kept her composure as angry faces closed in around her. She had seen bulky, nondescript club dwellers when she and Ben entered the End of the Line. But now she saw the women and men were all tall; of a uniform height, and that they looked similar to one another. Like a family of 30 children. Through her fear and mounting agitation, Zoë couldn’t help notice how striking these strangers appeared to her. Not carbon copies, for there were blondes, brunettes, redheads, a shiny bald pate or two among the encircling mass. But they all had the same firm jaw line, perfectly square and chiseled, and the noses were the same. The nose would not have been out-of-place on her face. It was the eyes that held Zoë firmly to the sticky bar room floor, not able to back away and make a run for the door. Each man, each woman, all of them representing the various races of Earth, had the same set of deeply intense blue-grey eyes. Beautiful and powerful they all were, and they did not seem happy about this petite interloper that crashed their gathering.
“Speak up!” The barkeep was in Zoë’s face now. She hadn’t realized that her lips were forming words against her will.
“That’s my brother,” she mouthed, barely above a whisper. An involuntary sweep of her eyes toward the back of the bar left no doubt in the minds of the encroaching crowd. Zoë was snapped out of her trance when she felt a firm grip on her left arm. The energy that radiated up and down the entire side of her body made her cry out, though she was not in pain.
“Explain.” The barkeep was bearing down on her, his blue-grey eyes searing a path to her thoughts. Zoë tried to keep her mouth shut but her words were ringing in her ears. Her reply was being blasted across the dingy room like she was addressing the crowd through a P.A. system. Zoë's voice had replaced the crackling static of the classic rock piped into the bar.
“The man in the painting is my brother Alex. I want to know what you’ve done with him.”
Photo courtesy of AKC
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