Sometimes Magic Sounds Like Tape
- “And where do you think you’re going?”
- “Uh… we don’t need to keep posing together. Valentine’s Day is over.”
- “Not in Hawaii.”
From the same project as this earlier entry, these two are the more action-oriented characters of the story. The girl (Marina) can find some way of knocking down just about anything or anyone, and the guy (Ethan) can climb to the top of just about anything. This occasionally leads to a conflict of interest.
These are two of the protagonists from a more recent project. Their story takes place in an alternate version of the 1980s, where certain technology is farther advanced than our own, and zombies are well integrated into society. Our heroes don’t exactly get along with them, though.
(Why 1980s? So that the characters have an excuse for their hair and fashion sense. Why zombies? ‘Cause this started out as a NaNoWriMo novel, and that’s the sort of thing one comes up with in November.)
And it’s the heroine! She wields strange magic! She fights as well as any man! She is ever ready with a witty retort! And of course both male leads are hopelessly in–
Oh snap, there goes my Cliché-O-Meter. I wish these things didn’t explode so violently; it always takes days to get the pieces out of the carpet.