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    Omega and Alpha & Rest My Brothers
    Omega and Alpha & Rest My Brothers
    Omega and Alpha & Rest My Brothers
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    Omega and Alpha & Rest My Brothers

    By K.G. McAbee and Cynthia D. Witherspoon

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    OMEGA AND ALPHA: damaged by a too-close encounter, the ship is limping home to Earth...but will there be time?
    REST, MY BROTHERS: the last expedition to Mars is ready to come home...but where is home?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherK.G. McAbee
    Release dateSep 27, 2014
    ISBN9781311681003
    Omega and Alpha & Rest My Brothers
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    K.G. McAbee

    K.G. McAbee has had several books and nearly a hundred short stories published, and some of them are honestly quite readable. She writes steampunk, fantasy, science fiction, horror, pulp, westerns and, most recently, comics. She’s a member of Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers and is an Artist in Residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her steampunk/zombie novella recently received an honorable mention in the 3rd quarter Writers of the Future contest.

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      Omega and Alpha & Rest My Brothers - K.G. McAbee

      Omega and Alpha by K.G. McAbee

      Rest, My Brothers by Cynthia D. Witherspoon

      Stories © copyright K.G. McAbee & Cynthia D. Witherspoon 2014

      These stories appeared previously in the anthology Christmas in Outer Space published by Whortleberry Press

      Cover art: NASA image in public domain

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      I wiped the steam from the porthole with my right hand. Never the left hand, never again; it was in my pocket, and it was going to stay there, no matter what.

      The thick, heavy syntho-glass fogged up again, almost at once. It didn’t matter. There was nothing to see outside the ship but black sprinkled with thick layers of stars, bleeding light like pale iridescent blood across the galaxy.

      I heard myself make a tch tch sound. I think I probably shook my head, too. That porthole shouldn’t fog over, of course; not on my ship. But the atmosphere circulation system was flaky. Everything onboard

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