by Kathy Warnes
Thelma felt like she had a black hole inside her. On the outside, she kept her life normal while the black hole inside her swallowed any light and happiness in her heart and soul.
Words like kidnapping and love and homesick jumbled into a letter rainbow that teetered above the black hole. She
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Before he even stepped through the vast wooden gates, the massive stench told Freeman all he needed to know: everyone in Camp B was dead. He gripped his revolver and walked the main street, eyeing every window and open door, stepping over loose limbs and bloated torsos.
An eyeball here.
Strings of intestines there.
RageX had
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Sixteen-year-old Joe Morgan subconsciously bit his lip as he squinted at the hyper-sensitive touch screen on the front of the Tempus Cruiser EMW.16. A device that created a worm-hole into another dimension, it allowed travel like a Stargate of an old show that still played re-runs on television. Only, rather than travelling
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He called me Jay. I called him Dr Corvid. Until the very end, we lived alone. We
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had no use for any other companionship. I was Dr Corvid’s finest achievement until he perfected his Disintegration Ray. I was the first working prototype of Project Novus.
Dr Corvid created me in man’s image without the
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Moon base Jastrow Station had a problem, and Bandit knew she and Bucket had to fix it or be stranded. The question was who could be trusted to help and who was the traitor who sabotaged the station.
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Previously… Larson and Tawni have been getting to know each other, and he recently told her about an old captain who basically raised. Tawni is discovering that Larson doesn’t know much about his own history, like where he’s from or even his birthday…
I was sitting in my captain’s chair, contemplating… well, Tawni, to be honest,
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It’s been a long time, but here’s a quick recap of what is happening in Larson’s world… The Ryson family is now traveling alongside Larson’s ship so that he can help them to Galindor. They spend a fair amount of time on his ship, and he seems to be taking a personal interest in them.
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PART 1
Revelling in the wonder and beauty that spread before me, I took a deep breath and pondered my changed circumstances. The differences were intensified by the busyness of the living splendour that
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Previously on Quest for Onepus… After having rescued Tawni and the Ryson family, Larson has volunteered to escort them all to Galindor, one stop short of the infamous Onepus.
The days passed by – almost pleasantly I might add – as we drifted through space, the Rysons’ ship keeping time with mine. Tawni and I had
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I am on the ground. A young boy is here. I seem to be my thirty-something year old self but the person I was certain a moment ago was a nurse in a hospital now stands before me in a white tee shirt and baggy tan gabardine shorts. At a glance
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