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    At This End of the Sky
    At This End of the Sky
    At This End of the Sky
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    At This End of the Sky

    By Mike Lee

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    This is a group of four Science Fiction Stories, each with a supprise ending.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Lee
    Release dateAug 25, 2016
    ISBN9781536536478
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      Book preview

      At This End of the Sky - Mike Lee

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      Mike Lee on Amazon Kindle and Goodreads

      Other works include

      The Death Clock

      A Better Part of Heaven

      Ten Top Secrets of Successful Job Search

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      Your support and respect for the property of this author is greatly appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      I. This End of the Sky

      II. The Longest Day

      III. The Swarm

      IV Blades of Grass

      ADDEMDM

      I. This End of the Sky Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - A Hard Freeze

      Chapter 2 - Home Bound

      Chapter 3 - Who’s Driving the Ship?

      Chapter 4 -The Mutineer

      Chapter 5 - A Visit To The Tree of Life

      Chapter 6 - Man of Gold

      Chapter 7 - The Whales

      Chapter 8 - The War or the Wheel

      Chapter 9 - Three Gifts

      Chapter 10 - The Longest Journey

      Chapter 11 - Sand Castles

      Chapter 12 - The Fountain of Life

      Chapter 13 - An Angry World

      Chapter 14 - Sand Demons

      Chapter 15 - The Gifts

      II - The Longest Day, by Mike Lee

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 16 - The Gizmo

      Chapter 17 - A Sunny Day

      Chapter 18 - The Grandfather Paradox

      III. The Swarm

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 19 - Visit to a Small Planet

      Chapter 20 - Bugs

      Chapter 21 - The Queen

      Chapter 1 - A Hard Freeze

      I swear my hands are frozen, said Mathew Stone holding the flashlight above him to signal the rest of the team.

      But that is impossible,’ said No. 2, Your gloves are superheated. Remember Mathew?"

      That maybe true, but they are still freezing. It's hard to believe this was once a tropical beach. Look over there you can still see the outline of a lounge chair frozen solid to the ice sitting under what used to be a palm tree, also frozen, near the now long frozen bay.

      I could swear I hear easy listening music, said Mathew, a faint smile hidden inside his helmet.

      Now Mathew, you know perfectly well, there is no music here. In fact there is no sound at all. You must be imagining the old Earth, the one before the freeze. You are thinking of the old Earth with an atmosphere. You know, back when the sun was still burning fire engine hot. They told us back at the station, this might happen to us, given the ten-year suspended animation and all. The training team told us just to ignore it.

      Too much isolation, I guess. said Mathew, "Still, I could swear I heard it.

      Sure music would be great, but darn it Mathew trust me. There will never be music on this old world anymore, said Mitch Green, whom everyone called No. 2, at his request. Now let’s all just get back to doing our jobs. I just want to get this resource survey done and get back to the orbiter tonight before it really gets cold. Said Mike Williams, who like to joke, when he described himself as the best mechanic in this part of the Galaxy, because he knew he might well be the only mechanic in this part of the Galaxy. Mike stood there holding on with his left hand, as he tried to fix his frozen scooter control.

      Just a sweet little star, twinkling at me from afar, makes me wonder where you are, sang Mathew, the oxygen starved crewmember.

      Lady in Blue, How I am miss missing you....da , dum, da, You’re so far away sang Mathew, making an attempt to dance with an invisible partner, then catching himself and blushing in embarrassment at what a bad dancer he was. Wow! Mitch just look at that offshore wave! Doesn’t it look like it might just roll on in and drown us all?" said Mathew clutching his waist and shaking like a dancing bear, spinning slowly around in the vacuum of what had once been an atmosphere, then nearly falling over the still frozen beach lounge chair.

      Every crewmember including the bear laughed.

      Now, Mathew Stone stared out of his heated space suit at the frozen landscape, at the once tropical jungle, now frozen in a hard freeze. On the small blue, third planet from the red sun called Earth. It was July 10, 5010. The once warm, yellow sun had long before begun its slow gradual cooling over nearly two centuries, and had now swelled into the red giant, it now was. Most of the people on Earth had participated in the mass exodus to Sopron 5, an Earth like Planet on the far side of the Milky Way. Only this privately funded small scavenger team came back looking for valuables.  Mathew and his brother, Paul were each leading a team in separate sectors of what used to be South America near the Equator, which was one of the more temperate climates left. The temperature was about -127 during the day and went down to a cool -–457.67°Ferinheight, only 2 degrees above absolute zero or –459.67°Ferinheight at night and then, even with the superheat settings of the Spacesuits, the Earth was totally uninhabitable for men in Spacesuits.

      As Mathew and the rest of the team climbed the long steep grade to the top of the hill overlooking the beach where the team had parked the small landing craft in what had once been a parking lot, they passed several old rusted and wrecked automobiles sitting by the side of the road. One of them, once a yellow cab had a frozen skeleton in the driver seat. It was all that remained of what had once been a human being.

      Hey buddy, you need a ride? said the skeleton staring out from the rusted wrecked old long abandoned yellow cab."

      At least Mathew imagined that the skeleton did. The crewmember had been on low air supply for well over an hour, so he was not in his right mind and he was now just merry skipping along the incline as though he had not a care in the world. He was skipping along like a young schoolchild. In his imagination, he was back on old Earth just enjoying the warm sunshine, near the beach. Outside, actually, it was -156 F, but to Mat, he was at home on a warm sunny day in his back yard, just looking for laughs from the rest of the crew. Mathew jumped back and forth between fantasy and reality, nearly falling off the side of the road into an old drainage ditch full of frozen sewage.

      What was that you said? asked Mathew, turning to his imaginary friend, his face reflecting sudden panic.

      What is up big fellow? replied No 2, Are we hearing things again?

      Just my imagination,

      Oh, yea, well get your imagination over to that Lander before we all freeze our butts off.

      See they don’t need you, my friend. How about that ride, now? said the frozen skeleton cabbie, showing its rotted teeth with a still frozen smile.  

      "Guys get up here, please! Mat appears to be having a problem. Here Mat, let me check something here on your regulator. Hum, that is interesting everything seems normal enough. You sure you got enough sleep last night.

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