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Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
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The little house pet from Venus didn’t like New York, so New York had to change.
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Release dateOct 14, 2016
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    Black Eyes and the Daily Grind - Milton Lesser

    Black Eyes and the Daily Grind

    by Milton Lesser

    © 2016 Positronic Publishing

    Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / Vadimsadovski

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    ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1184-0

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    Black Eyes and the Daily Grind

    by Milton Lesser

    The little house pet from Venus didn’t like New York, so New York had to change.

    He liked the flat cracking sound of the gun. He liked the way it slapped back against his shoulder when he fired. Somehow it did not seem a part of the dank, steaming Venusian jungle. Probably, he realized with a smile, it was the only old-fashioned recoil rifle on the entire planet. As if anyone else would want to use one of those old bone-cracking relics today! But they all failed to realize it made sport much more interesting.

    I haven’t seen anything for a while, his wife said. She had a young, pretty face and a strong young body. If you have money these days, you could really keep a thirty-five-year-old woman looking trim.

    Not on Venus, of course. Venus was an outpost, a frontier, a hot, wet, evil-smelling place that beckoned only the big-game hunter. He said, "That’s true. Yesterday we could bag them one after the other, as fast as I could fire this contraption. Today, if there’s anything bigger than a mouse, it’s hiding in a hole

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