TITLE: Adult
GENRE: Secret
I couldn't take another night of this. Stuck in this cheap-a** hotel room, listening in on the galaxy's latest in WMD technology.
The stench of ozone thickened in the hallway outside my room, burning my nostrils. Followed by the smell of deep-fried tofu and the light footsteps of someone trained to move silently. They weren't succeeding. But then, I had excellent hearing.
Had I f***** up that bad already? Of course if they were here to terminate me, they hadn't gotten the memo. I was immune to poison.
I placed a mini holo projector on the desk to hide the scattering of equipment that connected me to Buki Technologies' and Bogu Enterprises' communications networks and the minivid player that stored all the data I had collected on the development of House Aquarius' newest weapon of mass destruction.
Miss Snark's First Victim
Thriller with a dash of sci-fi/fantasy.
ReplyDeleteListening to the galaxy, smelling ozone and fried tofu and hearing light footsteps set the scene nicely. The last paragraph drives it home for me.
Science Fiction
ReplyDeleteAll the references to technology.
Thriller (like spy stuff)
ReplyDeleteThe assassin references.
Sci-fi action
ReplyDeleteholo projectors, galaxy, house aquarius are science fiction and the expectation of assassination means lots of action ahead
SCI FI THRILLER
ReplyDeleteGalaxy, assassination, "stench of ozone," mini holo projector, "data I had collected"...
Sci-Fi
ReplyDeleteThat last sentence is way too long and quite heavy in detail. Try to break it up or eliminate what isn't required.
Good luck!
Holly
Sci-fi
ReplyDeleteSci-Fi Thriller
ReplyDeleteGalaxy in the first sentence. The reference to WMD leads me to think it is dealing with contemporary themes in a science fiction settings. Interesting if done well.
Sci-Fi -- with all the tech references.
ReplyDeleteSci-fi thriller. An intriguing beginning. Good luck, Sarah
ReplyDeleteSci-fi thriller, Liked the impervious to poison stance and the good hearing, although I wonder how one can hear a person sneaking up when listening to something else.
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ReplyDeleteGalaxy. And technologies.
Sci-fi thriller, right from the second sentence. Gritty, Blade Runner style world from the language. Guessing the main character is a spy (or a reporter a la Lois Lane but with good funding). Not sure how the MC immediately jumps to poison as his/her would-be assassin's choice. Also not sure why she's thinking in past tense in the italics. Really good atmosphere though, jumps right in.
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ReplyDeleteAll the ozone and mini halo talk.
Sci-Fi Thriller
ReplyDeleteGalaxy, ozone.
Sci-Fi. Mention of Galaxy, ozone, made-up technologies.
ReplyDeleteScience Fiction. From the word Galaxy.
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ReplyDeleteGalaxy, ozone, technologies.
I'm also really thinking dystopian. I can't really explain why I think that, other than I immediately thought of Blade Runner.
SCIENCE FICTION
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for the word "galaxy," I'd say cyberpunk, but it sounds like this goes off-planet as well (though I guess cyberpunk does that sometimes too).
SCIENCE FICTION
ReplyDeleteRight the word galaxy I am expecting science fiction and seeing the scene through that lens. It would be hard for me to change gears if I found out it wasn't.
Science Fiction
ReplyDeleteHolo-projectors, enhanced hearing. And 'galaxy'. Likely also Thriller, as the mc supposes an attack.
Science Fiction
ReplyDeleteMy first clue was galaxy music, then all the tech mentioned.
SciFi.
ReplyDeleteEvery little delicious detail, galaxy's latest WMD tech, stench of ozone, mini holo projector, minivid player, weapons of mass destruction, unusual hearing, immune to poison reads syfy.
Science Fiction.
ReplyDeleteGalaxy is the biggest tip-off, then the ozone and technology mentioned.
Science Fiction
ReplyDeleteReferences "the galaxy" rather than the planet or the country... stench of ozone and perhaps enhanced senses. Holo projector, and basically every noun in that paragraph.
sci-fi
ReplyDeleteall the stuff!
Sci fi
ReplyDeletegalaxy, technology, terminate, holo projector, minivid, Hose Aquarius
Science Fiction
ReplyDeleteHe's in the worst hotel in the galaxy, and there's all that technology.
MILITARY SCI-FI
ReplyDeleteWMD's says military to me. It could be present day, but the unfamiliar technology and the reference to the galaxy (instead of the world) makes me think we aren't confined to Earth.
Science fiction
ReplyDeleteThanks to everyone who guessed and commented on this entry.
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