A. Werner

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Excerpt

Nix woke up when the first lines of radio chatter brushed up against her sensory tentacles. She ran her consciousness throughout her shipself and unfurled the feathery receiving wires that lined her delicate sensory limbs. The wires flicked back and forth in the void, scanning for more radio signals.

Nix’s selfself was plugged into the pilot stem, intubated and wired and cushioned in impact gel. She had been inside her selfself for only a few brief moments over the last few months in order to run the standard checks on her selfself’s vital systems. For the rest of the time she had inhabited the Man of War, drifting along shipping lanes and waiting for an opportunity.

She identified the ship as a mining company transport, carrying ore from a nearby asteroid field. Nix often took on corporate contract jobs, harrying a company’s competitors and inducing stock drops in exchange for credit and legal protection. She ran the ship’s ID code through her shipself’s processors. When it pinged, her shipself smiled, curling her grasping tentacles into a great set of parentheses. She retracted all but a few sensory arms into the body of her shipself and waited.

Bio

A. Werner is a semi-nomadic individual currently residing in Austin, Texas, where she works for a nonprofit and performs various tasks for various literary journals. In her spare time she enjoys drinking coffee and reading comic books.

Publications

"Goodbye, Invisible Man," Storyglossia, Issue 46

Writing Description

I write strange short fiction that draws from my love of B-movies, rocket ships, and various kinds of pulp.

Writing Goals

There's nothing like a deadline for lighting a fire under my feet. My goal for the Write-a-thon is to finish writing my current short fiction project, a science fiction piece tentatively titled "Man of War." By "finish," I mean that by July 27th this thing should be so polished it shines. I'd like to have it ready to send it out the markets the day after the Write-a-thon ends.


Website

http://girloftomorrow.wordpress.com/


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