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    Roach's Run
    Roach's Run
    Roach's Run
    Ebook38 pages29 minutes

    Roach's Run

    By Christopher Watson

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    Born to Kill & Die
    Deep space exploration ramped up. Though governments search the black with top-notch scientists running expensive robots and drones; corporations cornered the market.
    Contracting their staff for little more than room, board, and a promised portion of any find, Prism Corp flings ships into the universe. The frontline - Suicide Squad - explores with little to live for and often expire before their contracts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateDec 17, 2013
    ISBN9781625380005
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      Roach's Run - Christopher Watson

      2

      Five

      I didn't know they came that big.

      As usual, Jacobs talks to anyone listening and, as usual, no one answers. Scanning the dark, rocky landscape of this miserable fucking planet for the enemy we outran, I roll my adrenal capsule from under my tongue and clack the metal casing against the inside of my teeth. This cave stinks like a frontline latrine. Reflexively, I make sure I’m not laying in anything slick or slimy.

      Four strokes and the pill sprays cherry against my palate. I slide the booster back under my tongue to keep it from fully triggering and suck at the flavor shot to activate the crust–flavored micro–crystals. Homemade cherry pie. Or what it probably tastes like to those rich enough for the real deal.

      Did anyone know they came that big? Jacobs, the only Chi'Gan to join a Suicide Squad, clicks the clip releases on his pulse pistols. Like most of his kind, in action, he’s a gangly blur of taut brown skin over lean muscle and sinew. Roach?

      Used to me replying, he frowns at my silence.

      His upper set of hands moves like lighting, switching clips while his lower set catches the empties and clicks them into the four swap spots on his pack. Pure twitch. Have you ever seen anything that big? When we invaded two hundred years ago, they were lanky bastards with stone spears and pinpoint accuracy. Now, they fight with us and have upgraded to our pulse pistols. I need an expletive.

      Damn, I suggest.

      Dixon, my dream girl if it wasn't for the wedding ring she wore on her middle finger to flip off my advances, offered, Fuck.

      Profanity is the first resort of the limited mind. Dixon and I share a look at Stripe’s opinion—always the goddamn church boy. Expletives are not necessary.

      The rocks are still. The pie flavor is gone. I blow air out and sniff my breath to chase the experience. My nose and mouth make empty promises to my equally empty stomach. Pissed, it growls. We have been on restricted rations for three days now. A wild thought comes and I ask, Think they’re poisonous?

      Dixon drops next to me, a second set of eyes. I don’t think they’re bio. She’s been clacking too.

      Her throat works. I wet my lips. Is that apple?

      She swallows the flavor burst, and her breath is fresh pie goodness. Yeah.

      Got an extra?

      Not apple, but I got three others. She

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