Silver Linings by Tim Pratt
"Cloudmining is a rough business at the best of times, mostly because everyone on the ground wants to kill you, but I had more particular problems…."
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Silver Linings by Tim Pratt
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Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store
Originally at: Escape Pod, Narrated by Stephen Eley (http://escapepod.org) First appeared at Robin Sloan’s blog, June 8, 2009.
IT’S 2:02 A.M. ON A COLD SUMMER NIGHT.
I’m sitting in a book store next to a strip club.
Not that kind of book store. The inventory here is incredibly old and impossibly rare. And it has a secret—a secret that I might have just discovered.
I am alone in the store. And then, tap-tap, suddenly I’m not.
And now I’m pretty sure I’m about to snap my laptop shut, run screaming out the front door, and never return.
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