Two Years
Communications came only with the solstices, when the star verde orbited was in just such a position as to slingshot messages to and from the relay stations staggered in deep space. but anymore, the marines did not look forward to updates from home.
A Viper's Nest: Border Station Five - Chapter One
After this, john had a seventy-two-hour wait for a slingshot manoeuvre. john knew he could go back into stasis for most of that time.
The Shadows Book Two: The Legacy of Man and Machine - Chapter Four
As liki and one-eye drew closer to about ten feet and readied to strike, it shot up the other direction it had been bending over in like a slingshot, the rotted arms of its body strecthing out sickly to grow past fifteen feet; bark and more black ooze littering
Paradigm Shift 1: Flash Point
There was a tiny amount of meat, probably some poor varmint that got in range of my dad's slingshot, a small amount of corn, and a biscuit. my mother sat down on the other side of the square table and began saying grace.
Chapter 10: Gym
He shot out of bed like a rock from a slingshot, and out of rachel's room, headed for his own. he would have to hurry if he was going to make it to school on time, since he still had trouble putting on the uniform.
Disconection
I pull away and slingshot like a rubber band right back into old habits. days go by and i wonder when the elasticity will give out it's going to happen, just as it has before.
Brian's New Found Love
"yeah that's from peter's homemade slingshot last night, only his head went through. while he was stuck, however; we used his ass as a piñata." brian chuckled out. "sounds like you got yourself a pawful of a family here."
Clan Uzuri's Jungle Holiday
Riyo hid himself in the bushes just past the hive and fished his slingshot out of his backpack. finding a suitably large rock, he loaded his slingshot and aimed it at the stem holding the hive to the branch.
Horizon: Salvaged Heroes, Ch.1
Tanya shook her head, "only if we coast and use gravity slingshots for two years. by then something will have broken and we're likely to suffocate or starve." "so we're stuck here." didelph leaned back in his seat in resignation.
Gesshru Chapter 15
This was the one isle, far away from ground forces who might back tasgal up or tear apart the weapon, in which this slingshot could actually fire down. my body was walked directly into an obvious trap.
Track and Field: Part 6 - Lee
The elastic pulled taut, and he groaned as it popped out of his paw and shot across the room like a slingshot. "goddammit." god forgive me, but i laughed. he did, too.
Three Count
He grabbed redd's muzzle and spring boarded over the ropes, instead of landing on the apron though, he continued to fall and slingshot the top rope into his face. redd tumbled backwards onto his back. "oh, tavish hangs him up on the ropes!"