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    The Storm
    The Storm
    The Storm
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    The Storm

    By Harvey Stanbrough

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    On a distant planet, it's just you and your wife, stranded inside your apartment. You're unable to do what you're trained to do. And she drones on and on and on.  
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrostProof808
    Release dateJun 27, 2017
    ISBN9781386839446
    The Storm
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    Harvey Stanbrough

    Harvey Stanbrough is an award winning writer and poet who was born in New Mexico, seasoned in Texas, and baked in Arizona. Twenty-one years after graduating from high school in the metropolis of Tatum New Mexico, he matriculated again, this time from a Civilian-Life Appreciation Course (CLAC) in the US Marine Corps. He follows Heinlein’s Rules avidly and most often may be found Writing Off Into the Dark. Harvey has written and published 36 novels, 7 novellas. almost 200 short stories and the attendant collections. He's also written and published 16 nonfiction how-to books on writing. More than almost anything else, he hopes you will enjoy his stories.

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      The Storm - Harvey Stanbrough

      The Storm

      At Galen One Alpha, Harold Sloan woke up alone, as usual, knowing without reaching across the bed he would find it empty. He strained for a moment to listen for the storm, then remembered the apartment was soundproofed. Oh well.

      Probably Millie was already in the kitchen, making breakfast. He never had to worry that she might be outside the apartment anywhere. She just wasn’t the adventurous type. Then again, the fewer worries the better.

      Maybe he could go to work today.  Maybe the storm had finally abated.

      He flipped the covers off, then stood and went to the small chest of drawers to take out a fresh undersuit and a pair of socks. He sat on the bed and pulled on the socks, then put his legs in the undersuit and tugged it up over his calves and thighs. It was easier that way than trying to stuff the socks up under the legs if the undersuit was already on.

      He stood, spread the upper part of the undersuit behind him, and slipped his arms inside. When he had those pulled down to his wrists and the front adjusted, he zipped it up. Then a memory came to him of last night. He dropped heavily on the bed again, looked vaguely at the baseboard beyond his side of the bed and shook his head.

      Why in the world had he dreamed of Joy Schlicter? He’d never dreamed of her before.

      In fact, he’d never dreamed of any woman before, other than Millie. And even those times were tame. And rare.

      Millie did sometimes appear in the periphery of his dreams. But even then she was more a representation of

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