My first Snippet for SFFS is from my eternally in-progress "A Fistful of Dragons". Here, the heroes have just joined a cattle drive and are about to meet some of the other cowhands.
Comments are welcome -- not just on the snippet but on the blog design, title, etc. If this blog becomes a going concern I hope to post more of my fantasy/SF as well as tell about "really cool things" I've read about (natural wonders and other stuff I think everyone should know about, hence "Look Around You").
Meanwhile, out on the trail:
Jon thought the three
men coming towards them were leading horses, but they weren't.
They had the dark
skin and features of Jon’s own people, long hair tied at the end with beads, and
wore wide-brimmed hats decorated with more beads and several feathers – tokens
of some brave deeds or big adventures. They wore buckskin shirts like the other
cowhands.
From the waist
down they were horses.
Jon, gaping, just
looked at Wolf.
“They’re called centaurs,” said Wolf.
“I know that!” Jon almost yelled. “But
they – well, where I come from you’d never see them on a cattle drive!”
“Why not? That’s more spare horses for the rest of us.”
