Science Fiction and Fantasy Saturday No. 6 (#sffsat) - Tower in the Woods
/Continuing from the past weeks, this snippet is from Tower in the Woods, a post-apocalyptic zombie romance now available on Amazon, ARe and LSBooks (I'm still waiting for it to show up on Barnes and Noble). It is based on the Grimm's fairy tale Rapunzel. I'm switching over to Dane's POV this time. For past snippets, click on the SFFSat tag at the bottom of this post.
Special Agent Dane Prince silently cursed as he hauled himself up the Tower in the woods. The flimsy rope cut painfully into his palms, the small sharp fibers that were braided elaborately together feeling like prickly thorns. He could only thank his lucky stars the woman on the other end was holding steady. Dane couldn’t make out any facial features when he first looked up at the Tower, the moonlight having silhouetted the female and obscuring his view. He had been desperate, asking her to pull him up, even though he strongly doubted any female had the strength necessary to do so. Now that he was a good fifteen feet off the ground, he was relieved he had been wrong, but intimately aware if she suddenly let go of the rope he would most surely die.
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