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    Fortin's Revenge
    Fortin's Revenge
    Fortin's Revenge
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    Fortin's Revenge

    By Louisa Swann

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    No matter whether it's here on Earth or halfway across the Galaxy, revenge always packs a punch. question is: do you take it standing up like a man or let it suck you into an empty black hole?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEye of the Eagle
    Release dateJan 20, 2012
    ISBN9781465900463
    Fortin's Revenge
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    Louisa Swann

    Louisa is a professional writer living in northern California with husband, son, and a slew of critters, both domestic and wild. The family has been off the grid for over twenty years and keeps their carbon footprint small by doing without frig and water heater. Besides writing and caring for critters, both two-legged and four-legged, Louisa is the proud mama of a host of other little beings, namely veggies and flowers, who live in their 8′x16′ greenhouse. Springs fills the air with flowers and song while frogs leap merrily underfoot. Life is sweet!

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      Fortin's Revenge - Louisa Swann

      Fortin's Revenge

      Louisa Swann

      Copyright 2012 by Louisa M. Swann

      Published by Eye of the Eagle Press at Smashwords

      Story first appeared in the Cosmic Cocktails anthology

      published by DAW (2006)

      Smashwords License Statement

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      Fortin’s Revenge

      Louisa Swann

      It was a quarter past midnight when I shoved through the door of the Broken Dreams Saloon. A quick scan of the main floor showed the place hadn't changed much in the years since I'd passed this way. Different barkeep. Different customers.

      Same acrid stench of despair.

      Not too surprising. The only folks that hung out on this rock were the specialists necessary to keep the mining station operational. Miners, transport pilots, mechanics, and of course, support personnel.

      Probably once a decade or so a Judge's Official Enforcer would stop by in search of someone who'd been hiding way too long from

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