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    Keri's Last Run
    Keri's Last Run
    Keri's Last Run
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    Keri's Last Run

    By T.D. Edge

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    T.D. Edge's short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including End of an Aeon, Realms of Fantasy, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Flash Fiction Online. In May 2012, he won the New Scientist/Arc Magazine's Science Fiction short story contest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT.D. Edge
    Release dateJun 4, 2012
    ISBN9781476142739
    Keri's Last Run
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    T.D. Edge

    T. D. Edge lives in London. He won a Cadbury's fiction competition at age 10 but only did it for the chocolate. When that ran out, he got writing again and published several children's/YA books (writing as Terry Edge) with Random House, Scholastic, Andre Deutsch and others. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies and magazines including Aeon, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction Online and Realms of Fantasy. In May 2012, his story "Big Dave's in Love" won the New Scientist/Arc Magazine SF short fiction contest.

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      Keri's Last Run - T.D. Edge

      Table of Contents

      Keri’s Last Run a short story

      Excerpt from Bloodjacker

      About the Author

      Stories by T.D. Edge

      Keri’s Last Run

      (a short story)

      by T. D. Edge

      About Keri’s Last Run

      In a world without horses, human runners must carry the King’s secret messages. Keri Ostrader is the best and this is his last run, but he’s in love with Princess Arianne and doesn’t trust her father, the King…

      T.D. Edge’s short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Arc, Penumbra, Realms of Fantasy, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Flash Fiction Online.

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      Keri’s Last Run

      Copyright 2013 by T. D. Edge

      All rights reserved, which includes the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever except as provided by the U.S. Copyright Law.

      Cover Image Copyright 2013 by Ben Baldwin

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      Keri’s Last Run

      Keri Ostrader sat alone in the Priming Room, the other runners having said their farewells. He was naked except for a short leather kilt, the only clothing he would wear when running. Beside him, his pack bulged with algae cakes, chia seeds, water and cured pork. He rubbed oil into his chest and arms, taking in the familiar pristine stone room, with its gleaming baths and rows of supply cupboards.

      The door opened and a figure appeared, dark against the bright sunlight.

      Were you going to leave without saying goodbye?

      Well, that was the plan. I couldn’t face having you beg me to stay and staining my feet with your tears. That would be very undignified for a princess.

      Arianne closed the door. She wore, unusually for her, a formal white gown, her red-blonde hair piled on top of her head, silver earrings flashing around her neck.

      It’s my birthday tomorrow, she said. As if you care.

      Why do you think I’m going on this run? The last thing I want is to waste an evening pretending to be interested in the gossip of some ugly, just-turned-seventeen girl.

      She punched his arm, a long tress of hair falling out of its stay in the process. "Eighteen! I’ll be an adult, for your information. I can get married at last, not that there’s anyone around here

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