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    Ghosts of the Dead
    Ghosts of the Dead
    Ghosts of the Dead
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    Ghosts of the Dead

    By Meyari McFarland

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    Survival was hard enough but when your space station was half destroyed and the population was slowly trickling away it became even harder. Paulina lived with the scars of the accident that had nearly killed their station. She wasn't sure if she could live with the plan her lover Tina and their friends had come up with to revive the station's failing future.

    It was hard enough to live with the ghosts of the dead in her heart. Paulina wasn't sure she could stand to be surrounded by them all the time.

    Ghosts of the Dead is a near future SF story of recover from disaster, regaining your strength and moving into the future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMDR Publishing
    Release dateFeb 6, 2014
    ISBN9781311354563
    Ghosts of the Dead
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    Meyari McFarland

    Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from SF and Fantasy adventures to Romances but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Her series range from Space Opera Romance in the Drath series to Epic Fantasy in the Mages of Tindiere world. Other series include Matriarchies of Muirin, the Clockwork Rift Steampunk mysteries, and the Tales of Unification urban fantasy stories, plus many more. You can find all of her work on MDR Publishing's website at www.MDR-Publishing.com.

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      Book preview

      Ghosts of the Dead - Meyari McFarland

      Ghosts of the Dead

      By Meyari McFarland

      When she and Tina walked home last night they'd glimpsed holograms of space-suited ghosts with broken helmets appearing and disappearing in the central concourse.

      People around them had laughed or screeched with delight. They appeared to enjoy it. Paulina had no idea why. What was so great about being scared? It didn't make any sense to her. She could identify the people the ghost holograms were based on. One had been Lisa Lui who'd died of oxygen deprivation after using up three canisters of air saving other people. The other had been Boss Johnson as his corpse drifted off into space, flailing and reaching for the cut line that had meant his head. The idea of their 'ghosts' wandering the station made Paulina's stomach twist into knots. Tina, on the other hand, had grinned so smugly that Paulina had glared at her.

      Other Books by Meyari McFarland:

      Fitting In

      Artifacts of Awareness

      A Range of Debts Collection

      The Nature of Beasts

      Captured Debts Collection

      Repair and Rebuild

      Infinite Horizons Collection

      Tales from the Dana Clanhouse

      Storm Over Archaelaos

      Published by Mary Raichle on Smashwords

      Copyright ©2013 by Mary Raichle

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be emailed to me_ya_ri@yahoo.com

      This book is also available in ebook format from all major retailers.

      ISBN: 978-1-939906-40-3

      Dedication:

      This story is dedicated to my father and everyone else who's lived through wars, disasters and other events that changed everything.

      Table of Contents

      Ghosts of the Dead

      Darkness Rising

      Afterword

      Ghosts of the Dead

      1. Water Damage

      Ugh, Paulina complained. It stinks.

      The whole station stinks, Tina said with a shrug that was anything but casual. Will until the filters are all replaced.

      That was true enough that Paulina didn't reply. The smell of smoke and melted plastic had almost gotten familiar in the last couple of months. It lingered on Paulina's tongue, stained the back of her nose until the burning seemed normal.

      Nothing was normal, not anymore. Too many people were dead. Too many had fled the station with what little they could salvage. Paulina had a moment of vertigo as she remembered the burnt and twisted wreckage of the other half the station drifting away with Keiko Lewis still chattering away about keeping people safe.

      She'd died. Her body was still in the wreckage a few thousand klicks away. She wasn't the only one 'buried' in vacuum. Paulina shut her eyes against the rush of faces she'd never see again. So many people had died but Paulina had been left behind to struggle on through life. The too-familiar sourness of vomit rose at the back of her throat, threatening to spill Paulina's meager mushroom and spinach piroshky out onto the stained carpet covering the floor.

      It smells like mold, Paulina said once she'd pushed the nausea down again. We can't buy a place that's full of mold, Tina.

      We can fix it, Tina replied as she

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