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A soldier aboard a generational cruiser orbiting Mars is the only one who can save a small colony on the surface. That's because he's the only one left alive on the ship as it hurtles toward the Martian terrain. Trouble is, the door he needs to get through requires two arms to open - and he only has one...
This story earned Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest in 2012.
Michael D. Britton
Michael D. Britton has been writing professionally for 25 years, including heading up marketing departments, working in huge private corporations, writing for government entities, supporting non-profit healthcare systems, sprinting with tiny tech start-ups, freelancing, and a producing TV news broadcasts in the 90s. His short fiction has received ten honorable mentions in the Writers of the Future contest, among other recognition; and his novels have advanced through multiple rounds of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in various years. His list of indie-published fiction titles exceeds 65 and keeps increasing. Learn more at www.michaeldbritton.com.
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New Beginnings - Michael D. Britton
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Copyright 2012 by Michael D. Britton / Intelligent Life Books
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It was a simple thing, really.
Cut away the skin, carve into the muscles and sinews, pull back the tendons, reveal the bone. Extract the sample, close.
I suppose it would’ve been a little easier if I had not been in a zero-G environment.
And