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In Pieces #53 (13.1) by Julie Lynn Hayes
Sleeping in felt nice, especially after the rough time they’d gone through the night before. After Brandon’s precipitate departure, the band had gone on to play their last set. Ryan kept a careful eye on the door, in case Brandon came back, although what he would have done if he had he didn’t know, but there was no sign of the asshole. Everything went well, the crowd loved Salvation, and they ended the evening on a positive note. After they finished and packed up the van, the owner, Clete, had invited them for a drink. Not wanting to be rude to someone who’d given them the chance to play, they spent a few minutes talking to him before they finally left. Clete had nothing but nice things to say about them, and he told them they were welcome to come back to his place and play any time. Nothing was said of the incident with Brandon on the drive back to Mandeville,
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Here Kitty Kitty: Chapter 21.2 by Carol Pedroso
Carl slammed into his rooms and froze. He hadn’t thought of what to do once they were back.
“Are you going to let me down or stand here staring at the couch all afternoon?” Tristan’s muffled voice demanded.
Carl shook himself and slowly lowered Tristan to his feet. And if he allowed a bit more full body contact than was necessary well who could blame him?
Tristan straightened his clothes, crossed his arms and glared. “I supposed you think your clever carting me off so we don’t have to do any of the clean up? So, you have me alone again.
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We all turned to Captain. He blinked, opened his mouth, then shut it. Aparoe snorted. “For someone so eloquent just a little bit ago, you sure lost it. Sir.” The sarcasm of that added sir wasn’t lost on anyone. “Let’s go find a planet that doesn’t have a ring of satellites and settle there. Eventually all this furor will settle down.”
“They will hunt us.”
“I have my recordings. Deke has his weapons and whatever he’ll come up with while you play at retirement. You’ll come up with a plan, and we’ll take down whatever fools think they can use
Adrift: Chapter 41 by J. Alan Veerkamp
Arad barely kept his frustration under control. “The reboot didn’t work. The problem is something mechanical and the access is out there.”
Two days. For two days they continued the circular argument, tempers flaring and ebbing. Flaring and ebbing. Two nights Roku slept on the floor. Standing in front of the airlock, Arad considered pushing Roku outside. Instead, he made final checks on one of the spacesuits Torrins stashed in a storage locker for in-transit repair work. Readouts said the seals were intact and the oxygen cells at full capacity.
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