Cupids

By Jason A. Adams

Sometimes you get more than you bargained for.
Castros Bianchi lives for his Menagerie.
His vast fortune now buys the rarest specimens of the galaxy’s diverse life forms.
An old collector. A private moon. A cherub run amok.
Come along for a delightful romp reminiscent of pulp’s Golden Age.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jason A. Adams
• Release date: Mar 27, 2020

Jason A. Adams

Jason A. Adams grew up in various Air Force towns, but Southwest Virginia has always been his homeplace. His military brat childhood exposed him to exotic locales, fascinating people from around the world, and a lifetime curiosity that informs his fiction.Jason is the author of many short stories based in and around the Virginia coalfields he lives in and loves. He currently lives on a forest mountain with assorted beasties, and his beautiful and talented wife, Kari Kilgore, also a writer of many wonderful stories.Find out more at www.jasonadams.info, where you can sign up for information on upcoming releases, and the occasional update from The Brain Squirrels.For all works released by Spiral Publishing, including Kari's many fantastic stories and non-fiction by Frank Kilgore, check out www.spiralpublishing.net.

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Cupids

To all those who never read the instructions

Cupids

Jason A Adams

Spiral Publishing, Ltd.

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

About Jason

Also by Jason A Adams

1

Castros Bianchi rode over the railroad tracks out to his menagerie, reflecting on his good fortune. He’d been in transportation his whole life, and now enjoyed using a different pre-spacing conveyance every day. Today, he sat atop a quaint steel bicycle. He’d had quite a time getting it away from the Museum of Human Travel, but the combination of credits and friendly overtures had finally sufficed.

After starting as a valet on Trans-Vegan Spaceways, Castros had impressed, cajoled, manipulated, and sometimes strong-armed his way onto the board. Now he was semi-retired, enjoying his own private moon orbiting the violet gas giant Vega-7, which he privately called Purple Jesus. Few people these days got the joke, mainly those in his antique cocktail club.

The old trillionaire