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Cathy Parker
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Power Stabilized
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
It Happened to Me
In this excerpt from Power Stabilized, which is NEARLY READY to launch, Shannon faces two huge and frightening dragonpanthers. This episode probably sprang from my creative consciousness because of an encounter I experienced with a bull elephant. I had travelled to Tanzania on safari and the guide of our enthusiastic group of five had taken us down to the river right to the edge of an elephant herd, which gradually drifted by us until we were surrounded. A young bull elephant picked that moment to challenge the big bull for mating rights. They were only about fifty feet away. We had front row seats to the fight, which didn't last long, and ended in the defeat of the young bull. All hyped up from the encounter, the big bull turned toward us and trumpeted, as if to say, you want a piece of me, come try it. Our guide told us to remain absolutely still and not make a sound. It was a tense moment, for that huge elephant, if it had chosen to, could have ground our Land Rover into pulp and us with it. Discerning that we decidedly didn't want a piece of him, he eventually stood down and we beat a hasty retreat!
Book Excerpt
Power Stabilized
The two descending creatures swooped in and came to rest next to Shannon’s hiding place, their great wings humming on the wind and folding inward like umbrellas next to their bodies as they settled.
“Salesti? Narci?” Shannon whispered. “You two duck under those rocks at the far end and stay there. No matter what.” Narci’s black fur would blend with the dark recesses between the stones, and Salesti could nestle beneath her.
Salesti and Narcissus disappeared into the shadows where three boulders leaned together.
Shannon pulled her silver- blonde braid over one shoulder and ran shaking fingers down to its tip. She tried and failed to stop the trembling in her legs as the two giant creatures stamped toward her—heads lowered, silver-blue eyes blazing.
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