Well, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve been rather busy lately, between the day job and life and writing. I’m waist-deep in revising my fantasy novel, Duty to the Crown, based on my agent’s suggestions. It’s all good stuff. Tightening things, raising the stakes, allowing the character to be more of who he is… and making the story more epic. That novel is set in the same world as the snippets I had been sharing of Old Wounds.
Meanwhile, my alter-ego has also been writing a romance. So it’s been a lot of back and forth between projects.
But I have missed SFF Saturday quite a lot. So here I am again! And I noticed there’s a prompt now… shades.
Well, I didn’t have anything with the word “shades” in it, so I chose to use shade. Here’s a snippet of a novel that’s currently trunked called The Tyras Key. It takes place about 350 years after Duty to the Crown. So same world, just later.
Had she been home, Silvia’s shower would have run cold by now. She missed the shock of the change that told her when to stop sulking. In this shower, she could regret forever. She rose and shut the water off. Enough.
She donned the dress her father had left for her. While made of silk, it was of a simple cut, nothing like the ball gown from the previous night. The dress was a violet close to the shade of a twilight sky and had a belt of black leather long enough that its tail rapped at her ankles. The colors spoke of endings, of death.
Perfect to wear for an execution.
Ann Laurel Kopchik 
Fabulous storytelling in here. Especially like the cold shower bit, lol.
Thank you!
I can imagine it might be hard to find the appropriate wear for an execution.
Especially when you’re partly responsible for it happening…
“In this shower, she could regret forever.” I ADORE that line!!
Ooo, nice imagery! I think something the shade of twilight is far more appropriate as a symbol for death than black.