Gina King

Joined February 2021

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Wildlife biologist, Northwesterner, reluctant passenger in this wild 21st century ride.

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Runner-Up in Next Great [American] Novel Challenge

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Ash Land. Runner-Up in Next Great [American] Novel Challenge.
The world had shrunk to the alternating whine and thrum of the engine, the endlessly scrolling road illuminated by the bouncing cone of light ahead. Now it showed smoother dirt and gravel to the right, deep rocky ruts to the left. On the margins shrubs and Douglas-fir branches were growing thicker with every mile. The press of cover to hide their fleeing pool of light felt reassuring, no matter how unlikely they were still being followed. Not since they had veered off Dead Indian Memorial Highway onto the gravel of Shale City Road and the battered Dodge had continued straight with a Doppler-shifting descent to the horn's blare. The flag whipping behind its cab matched one of three Loni had stashed in various hidden pockets in the forward frame bags, in the unlikely event whichever nation they ran afoul of next might be so easily appeased.
By Gina King2 years ago in Chapters
Kings of Camelot
Synopsis Lancelot makes the journey from sheepherder to knight in a Camelot ruled by his boyhood friends: Merlin, a hack magician struggling to catch up to his reputation as a skilled sorcerer; and Arthur, the boy coronated king after Merlin and Lancelot’s sword in the stone prank escalated out of control. Life is complicated by invading Saxons, the perhaps-evil Morgana, the irrefutably-evil Mordred, and Lancelot and Arthur’s competition for the attentions of Merlin’s kid sister, Guinevere, the vastly underappreciated brains of the lot.
By Gina King3 years ago in Humor
Advance Team: Zoo
Title Advance Team: Zoo Synopsis The Alzyne Scout Delegation has arrived on Earth, tasked with assessing feasibility of colonizing the planet. Alzynes don’t like to share planets with other intelligent species, and from what they've learned from our transmissions that may include humans, apes, dolphins, and a confusing array of other species sometimes depicted as large-eyed speaking creatures that act just like humans and sometimes depicted as ordinary animals. There’s a lot to work out.
By Gina King3 years ago in Humor
A Thing with Feathers
She closed her eyes and transformed. Reassuringly firm press of air beneath her wings, individual feather tips twisting in eddies and snapping back in place. Tiny adjustments produced predictable changes in pitch and roll felt with exhilarating clarity.
By Gina King3 years ago in Fiction
Second Chance
Jesus, it smelled like teen spirit. Susan threaded through, weathering assaults by B.O., perfumes, hairspray, artificial raspberry, undertones of bleach waging its feeble battle.
By Gina King3 years ago in Fiction
Confidence Interval
You can summarize the articles Share conclusions with caveats You don't lean out beyond your skis of 95 percent probabilities
By Gina King3 years ago in Poets
Otter duet
If there was anything you needed to know at SeaCity Aquarium, Irene was the one to ask. What was the upper temperature for the Windows on Washington tank? Where were the extra petri dishes for the Plankton Lab? Which computer is the server for backing up the sea otter live cams? She knew everything and would gladly help.
By Gina King3 years ago in Fiction
Dawn
Snow white sentinel candle bright ambassador welcoming the sun
By Gina King3 years ago in Poets
Sigh
Mount Rainier cloud cap From 4th Ave eyes rise to see how a giant breathes
By Gina King3 years ago in Poets
Lore
The ragged peaks over black trees slashed through with blood red ribbons of shrubs, the sailing dinghy surging on a sea recoiling chaotically from its forced union with that accursed land, the full-body exhaustion of fighting to control the tiller and mainsheet to keep the lunging craft from capsizing altogether.... A lesser spirit would have been overcome by such trials.
By Gina King3 years ago in Fiction
Blight
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. No, wait – the exact phrasing on the Alien poster cheekily displayed in the Exobiology Lab was, “In space no one can hear you scream”. Which of course is highly contextual, since you obviously needed air to be able to scream, and anyone sharing your airspace would hear that scream. Then there were electronic communications systems. In this case, the communications system that had broadcast Hannah Sudha’s scream to the dozens of crewmembers in the Lander Command Module and hundreds more watching from the ship orbiting above. All of this tumbled through her mind in a wave of mortification.
By Gina King3 years ago in Futurism
Cabin Fever
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. Matt spotted it first, tapping Alice’s arm and pointing at the glow flickering through the trees. She paused the truck’s jostling ascent and nodded silently, then eased the clutch back out slowly to keep the tires from slipping into the meandering fissure eroded down the center of road. The headlights swept across the squat structure as they rounded the bend, light reflecting off what fragments of glass still clung to the window frames. Black shadows from the porch rails and hanging fragment of porch roof were sent racing fast across the cabin’s blank face. There was a flutter of movement in the window and the candle went out.
By Gina King4 years ago in Horror

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Ash Land. Runner-Up in Next Great [American] Novel Challenge.

Kings of Camelot

Advance Team: Zoo

A Thing with Feathers

Second Chance

Confidence Interval

Otter duet

Dawn

Sigh

Lore

Blight

Cabin Fever

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