An Improbable Journey
By Gord McLeod
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Marooned on an uninhabited junk yard world that lacks the basic necessities of life, Corwin Koell finds what he needs with the help of a tiny robot, but escape will only come at a cost.
Gord McLeod
I won NaNoWriMo 2011 after live-writing my stories. I continue to write daily at http://www.fictionimprobable.com where all of my work is available for free. I have terrible difficulty deciding between writing under the name Gord McLeod or Gordon S. McLeod. Currently, Gord McLeod is winning. Once upon a time, I designed video games for Ganz Studios, the makers of WebKinz and the announced Tail Towns project. Many many moons ago, I wrote and drew a short-lived forgotten web comic. I'm a tech blogger for Livid Lobster at GeekBeat.TV and One Man's Blog.
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Gord McLeod
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An Improbable Journey
Copyright
First Page
Author's Note
Excerpt From The Diffident Hero
Fiction Improbable
An Improbable Journey
Who landed a freighter on top of me? were the words that slowly coalesced in his mind as consciousness stole up on him and robbed him of peace and blackness. What came out of his mouth sounded a lot more like Graahhbhrugh
to his ears, though whether it was his mouth or his ears that were malfunctioning, he couldn’t say.
He blinked a few times, but either his eyes were also misbehaving or it was very dark. He struggled to remember how he’d gotten here, wherever here was. Remembering stuff seemed safer and less painful than trying to move around blindly.
He’d been out drinking; that much at least he didn’t have to remember. The taste of his mouth was quite enough to tell him that. A fuzzy image came to mind of sitting alone in a space port bar until he’d been approached by …
He wasn’t sure who they were, but they’d been rough characters. That’d account for at least some of the hurting going on. There’d been a lot of fists flying, a few of them his, the rest of them flying his way. After that there’d been some bumpiness and movement, and then he’d been flying. No, falling. Yeah, falling. Everything after that was a just a dizzy blur of sound and color and motion.
He tried blinking a few times and it helped, or at least it seemed to. Everything looked dark gray now instead of black. The nearby sound of crunching on the ground confirmed his ears still worked.
He wondered for a