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We Traveled To Mars and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt!
A colonist of Mars (Seth Adams) finds himself on the red planet, alone, working an assigned job he hates, and ultimately wishing he had stayed on a doomed Earth. Not only are things not what they were supposed to be, he soon discovers that…
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Previously
…He thought of the stolen government craft, the one he’d seen being serviced at the outer landing bay. It was a long shot, a suicide mission. Commander Thorne, the iron-fisted guardian of the colony, would have his hide. But the thought of continuing to live a lie, to be a cog in their deceptive machine, was unbearable. He had to try. For Earth. For himself. And perhaps, in some small, selfish way, for Gypsy too, to show her that even a jaded colonist could still fight for what was right. He closed his eyes, the image of a gleaming spacecraft etched behind his eyelids, a beacon of defiance against the red dust. His plan, reckless and desperate, was beginning to take shape.