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    Pet Farm
    Pet Farm
    Pet Farm
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    Pet Farm

    By Roger Dee

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    The next worst thing to hell is being shanghaied into the Paradise of an alien planet!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJovian Press
    Release dateJan 15, 2017
    ISBN9781537816623
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      Pet Farm - Roger Dee

      PET FARM

      ..................

      Roger Dee

      JOVIAN PRESS

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      Copyright © 2017 by Roger Dee

      Interior design by Pronoun

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Pet Farm

      PET FARM

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      THEY HAD FLED ALMOST TO the sheer ambient face of the crater wall when the Falakian girl touched Farrell’s arm and pointed back through the scented, pearly mists.

      Someone, she said. Her voice stumbled over the almost forgotten Terran word, but its sound was music.

      No matter, Farrell answered. They’re too late now.

      He pushed on, happily certain in his warm euphoric glow of mounting expectancy that what he had done to the ship made him—and his new-found paradise with him—secure.

      He had almost forgotten who they were; the pale half-memories that drifted through his mind touched his consciousness lightly and without urgency, arousing neither alarm nor interest.

      The dusk grew steadily deeper, but the dimming of vision did not matter.

      Nothing mattered but the fulfillment to come.

      Far above him, the lacy network of bridging, at one time so baffling, arched and vanished in airy grace into the colored mists. To right and left, other arms of the aerial maze reached out, throwing vague traceries from cliff to cliff across the valley floor. Behind him on the plain he could hear the eternally young people playing about their little blue lake, flitting like gay

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