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    A Little Old Fashioned
    A Little Old Fashioned
    A Little Old Fashioned
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    A Little Old Fashioned

    By Rita Schulz

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    Wanda has to jettison her cargo on Dora, a planet on the frontier of space. Instead of a minor disciplinary hearing – her choices are death or life in a hard labor camp. At the last moment she receives an offer she can't refuse.

    Will this old fashioned girl do the right thing, or will she succumb to temptation and gain her little piece of paradise on a new world?

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher53rd Street Publishing
    Release dateSep 13, 2017
    ISBN9781386730071
    A Little Old Fashioned
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    Rita Schulz

    Rita lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia with, Russ, her husband, who is also a fiction writer. She has written for years and is an alumnus of the Oregon Writers Network, and the Greater Vancouver Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Her most recently published stories are Fire in Their Hearts with R.G. Hart from Champagne books, and Ladies of the Jolly Roger and Tales of the Fantastic, from 53rd Street Publishing. Please visit her website at http://www.ritacrossley.com to view her other works.  

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      A Little Old Fashioned - Rita Schulz

      A Little Old Fashioned

      A Little Old Fashioned

      Rita Schulz

      53rd Street Publishing

      A Little Old Fashioned

      Rita Schulz

      Published by 53rd Street Publishing

      Copyright 2014 Rita Schulz

      All rights reserved

      Cover image © Luca Oleastri | Dreamstime.com

      Cover designed by R. Edgewood

      Cover design and layout copyright 2017 by 53rd Street Publishing

      53rd Street Publishing

      Head office: Gibsons B.C. Canada

      www.53rdsteetpublishing.com

      This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

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      A Little Old Fashioned

      About the Author

      Also by Rita Schulz

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      A Little Old Fashioned

      Isat in the long hall outside of the office of the man I was called to report to. It had drab light grey walls and dark brown speckled floor. The walls had large paintings from the old masters and they were as phony as the wooden bench I was sitting on. It smelt like disinfectant and stale sweat .

      Wanda Juliette Morgan. The pert and perky, blonde twenty something female receptionist for the Director of the Intergalactic Services Agencies (IGSA) called my name, "The Tribunal will see

      you

      now

      ."

      I took a deep breath, wiped my suddenly sweaty palms on my dark blue dress pants, stood up and followed as she led the way into the inner sanctum of the local big cheese of the General Alliance of

      Planets

      –

      GAP

      .

      I just wanted this whole thing to be over, what was the worst they could do to me, give me a fine? Still I wondered how much it would be and if I was going to actually make and attempt to pay it off or just leave the planet and change

      my

      name

      .

      I looked around at the Great Hall, the ceiling was white, and the walls were the same color as in the hallway, a light gray, and the floor a slate gray. So much for the use of color. I supposed that the

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