cool thing 17

there's space all around you in every direction...

COOL THING MAY 21st - MAY 27th:

please enjoy this excerpt from a sci fi fantasy (the genre) novella I am working on. it is titled: the assault on melkor iv.

Epilogue.

kort awoke to a familiar whirring sound. it was the kind of sound that makes the hairs on your body stand straight out. that is, it would if you had any. kort, as a matter of fact, did not have any hairs on his body. no, he was a motagori, an amphibian man--an amphibiman, if you will--hailing for the swampy bogs of pyl'g's moons. unlike the planet itself, the 7 moons of pyl'g are home to a wide variety of interesting flora and fauna, likely a result of the incredibly diverse set of biomes that covers the surfaces and the, relatively speaking, close proximity of the moons to each other. the phrase a stones throw away is readily applied to the moons of pyl'g, especially when considering an adult vab'gyl'ii is doing the throwing.

kort had come to hate the faint whirring sound. hate may be too strong a term, but he definitely had a strong distaste for it. upon hearing it, a dense brine always frothed from his nostrils. and his knorbs would stand out, stretching and contorting his skin and muscles in anticipation of donning the rift plates--the motagori ceremonial armour. ahead was the spilling of blood. ahead was glory. he could already smell it. or was that the brine?

soft golden reflections danced on the walls and ceiling as he emerged from his pool. kort didn't notice. his mind was totally empty, simply letting his muscle memory carry him through the passageways of the boki battlecruiser. water and muck avalanched from his frame with every step, merging with that of the other motagori warriors walking in front of him before sloshing through the floor grates. they too had been awoken by the whirring, which signaled the priming of the quantum teleporters. they too anticipated the battle to come. blood would be spilt, and there were preparations to make.

another week, another cool thing. so far in 2018, 17/52 cool things have been released for your watching, listening, viewing, and reading pleasure.

cool thing bonus activity: in the spirit of the assault of melkor iv, describe an alien species of your own creation!

you never know, if it's cool enough I might find a place for it in my novel.

-frank

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