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    Long Way Home
    Long Way Home
    Long Way Home
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    Long Way Home

    By Christopher Ruz

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    In a desperate attempt to outrun his past, Andrew accepts a posting to the distant mining colony of Markourya, where the air is acid and the skin of the planet ruptures daily, swallowing men and their APCs whole.

    Markourya is uninhabited but for the hundreds of engineers - like Andrew - who spend their days laying down concrete and dodging the local fauna, trying to live out the length of their contracts. But there's something even more dangerous out in the Markourya gas-storms... something terrible and beautiful, drawing men like Andrew to their deaths...

    Long Way Home is a 2500 word dark science fiction short told through the letters Andrew sends home to his family. Can he survive Markourya long enough to get back to Earth? Or will Andrew's next letter home be his last?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Ruz
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    ISBN9781497702769
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      Long Way Home - Christopher Ruz

      Long Way Home

      by Christopher Ruz

      Copyright © Christopher Ruz Hayes-Kossmann 2011 All Rights Reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or copied without written consent from the author.

      Long Way Home was also collected in Past The Borders, a science fiction collection containing six stories inspired by Ray Bradbury and Alfred Bester, available on Kindle, iBooks, Nook and Kobo.

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      Long Way Home

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      Long Way Home

      Winner of the first Ergofiction Search Term Contest, 2010

      Day 22

      Mother,

      I was sorry to hear that Marie's child was stillborn. She and I haven't spoken since deployment and I'd almost forgotten the baby entirely. Five months in storage eats your brain in strange ways. They say you lose a handful of memories every time - just the old ones. Memories you never bothered holding on to very tight. The important

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