Welcome to Six-Sentence Sunday!
We’ll take a break from SOMETHING BLACK… this week and return to Book 4 in the Blood Skies series, CROWN OF ASH.
This week, we catch up with Kane as he and the rest of his captive teammates are taken to a most bizarre city at the edge of the black sea…
A city appeared over the horizon of grey sand, a behemoth of pale rock and sea bone. Rickety bridges made from petrified sinew connected towers of iron and salt, which looked as if they’d been shoved into the ground like wayward spears. Rings of blasted sandstone surrounded deep pits, and flags stitched from whale flesh flapped in the breeze. The Ebonsand lay just beyond the city, and its dark waters reflected the radiant light of the melting sun. There were no streets, just sandy walkways that wound between rugged towers and houses thatched together with rope and metallic netting. Drifts of sand covered the buildings like iron snow.
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Your settings are characters unto themselves. So frightful, and so incredibly cool.
I totally agree with Wendy. They really take on a life themselves. In my head, every setting you’ve ever described towers above me. They’re terrifying, but so damn awesome. Petrified sinews? Creepy, and super wicked.
Wow, just wow. This is fantastic.
Vivid imagery revealing the landscape word by gritty word. Well done.
Thank you, everyone, I’m glad you like it! [blushes] =D
I love the drifts of iron snow sand. It transports me.
How wonderfully bizarre, and incredibly vivid! Fantastic description.
I agree with Wendy, you are the master of setting-as-character. Always fantastic. Always disturbing.
Thank you so much, ladies! =D
As always you do such a wonderful job painting the scene! I could totally visualize this blasted landscape. I especially loved the material the flags are made from, nice touch!
That’s a fabulous description. Very cinematic.
Thank you! [head explodes with happiness]