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    Breaking Down
    Breaking Down
    Breaking Down
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    Breaking Down

    By Lelanthran Krishna Manickum

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    It happens to all of us ... our ride breaks down and we have to pull over and fix the damn thing. It even happens to astronauts, although in the case of spacecraft it does at least mean that the passengers cannot be terrorised by the owner into getting out and pushing.

    The astronaut had landed his crippled craft on an alien surface filled with all the terrors of the unknown (and the slightly less scary terrors previously encountered). Luckily, this hero has no problems, as the locals are mostly harmless, and anyway the Space Exploration Corporation has strict policies about getting eaten on remote planets. One of the locals, however, decides to make contact.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLelanthran Krishna Manickum
    Release dateNov 28, 2011
    ISBN9781466065789
    Breaking Down
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    Lelanthran Krishna Manickum

    Developer, researcher and sometimes writer. I tweet the release of every short story I write. If you want to leave me a message, my contact details are on my website. My website has further short writings in the form of blog postings, but, alas, my blog contains only non-fiction.

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      ©Lelanthran Krishna Manickum

      November 2011

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      The spaceship wobbled through the atmosphere. It wobbled, firstly, due to being designed for a different gravitational pull than the one it was currently experiencing and secondly, due to the fact that it was currently undergoing what maintenance crews would call a slight systems malfunction, but what pilots would call a reason for decapitation. The astronaut in this particular vessel was not helping matters in any way either, being sharply and prematurely awoken from his suspended animation sleep to manoeuvre the craft safely. Swearing violently at the ship, the strange and unexpected planet and, above all, maintenance crews the galaxy over, he switched on the emergency

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