So, I joined this group, Weekend Writing Warriors. Let’s see if I can keep this up for 10 weeks to the end of the year!
HOW IT WORKS
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8 sentences – I can manage that, can’t I?
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Luke swallowed hard, raising his hand to his face, partially covering his open mouth. The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end as he realized he had learned more than he had intended to. He played the video over again. They were healthy young men at the beginning, and in ten weeks, their appearance was so altered that their families wouldn’t have been able to identify their bodies.
Maybe he was wrong, maybe there was some other explanation. This additive to the company product, a product that he had been using in his training, a product that was supposed to give him an edge in competition, had caused the deaths of these two young men.
Something clicked inside his head. News reports about students missing. Discoveries of homeless on the riverfront that had overdosed on a synthetic drug.
Nervously, Luke took the micro-sized flash drive from the pocket of his lab coat.
This is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Roxy Sings the Blues.
That wasn’t so hard!
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quotidiandose 
This excerpt had a James Bondish / science fictiony feel to it that goes perfectly with the title for your post.
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I guess my years of reading and watching Bond have impacted me!
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I think the second paragraph is a repeat of the first?…interesting plot premise, very intriguing, makes the reader want to know what’s going on!
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Yikes! What a horrible realization.
Just a heads-up, Ellie–you’ve got some repeated sentences there.
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HOpefully they are fixed now if you care to try to read again. Can you imagine, being the one to find such evidence?
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I agree with Ed and really enjoyed this excerpt. I’m glad Andrea mentioned the repeated sentences though – I thought it was me going cross-eyed! 🙂
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I don’t know what happened – I proofed it I swear! Then I read it posted and WTH??? This has happened before. Thanks for pointing it out though, yeah it wasn’t supposed to repeat. I think I fixed it – let’s see what wordpress does with it though.
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Welcome. This is a fun group. I hope you enjoy our weekly snippets. The repeated sentences threw me. This guy is in a bad place. I hope he gets out before he becomes one of the victims.
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GAH! I went over everything twice – guess it should have been three times. Sometimes I think wordpress just hates me. Thanks for pointing that out – it happens when I copy and paste from another document, or when I rearrange things on the page.
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