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    Carrion Crow
    Carrion Crow
    Carrion Crow
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    Carrion Crow

    By Leah Cutter

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    Caitlin considers herself a carrion crow--living off the bones of the dead who have been left to drift in space at the end of the ugly war with the Allied Worlds.

    But many old warriors consider her work sacrilegious: they believe the dead should be buried on the planet they died above, their bodies left to rot in the earth, not returned home to their families.

    Caitlin knows the immense value of this last group of corpses in her cargo bay. Can she outwit those chasing after her? Even if it turns out to be an old friend?

    This exciting science fiction story pits friend against friend, where only the most clever survives. Set in the same universe as "The Claim Jumper", "Wild One", "Hero" and other stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnotted Road Press
    Release dateApr 21, 2018
    ISBN9781386459569
    Carrion Crow
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    Leah Cutter

    Leah Cutter--a Crawford Award Finalist--writes page-turning fiction in exotic locations, such as New Orleans, ancient China, the Oregon coast, ancient Japan, rual Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, Budapest, etc.  Find more fiction by Leah Cutter at www.KnottedRoadPress.com. Follow her blog at www.LeahCutter.com.

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      Carrion Crow - Leah Cutter

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      Carrion Crow

      CAITLIN SKIMMED PAST THE DERELICT Huang Gong as she piloted away from the planet Paahad . Enough dead ships made up the space graveyard that they could form their own asteroid belt. Silent reminders of the most recent war, left to decay and fall back into the atmosphere to burn up there, a constant supply of shooting stars for the survivors to wish on .

      What a waste.

      The people of Paahad and the winners of the war—the Allied Worlds—believed that where a body fell was sacred. It couldn’t be moved, but had to be interred as close to where the soul had died as possible.

      Never mind that over half the dead weren’t native. That they had their own families and planets and beliefs.

      That entire nations mourned the loss of their sons and daughters and could never bring their bodies home, never know peace.

      Caitlin steered her spaceship closer to Huang Gong. If the ship had been killed anywhere near one of the (formerly) independent planets, hundreds of scavengers would have been circling it, like flies massing around a dead body, reclaiming the exotic materials and metals, digging out wires and electronics.

      In addition, the Family Brigade would have divers sorting through the crew cabins, searching for personal mementoes to bring back to their loved ones.

      It wouldn’t remain a squandered carcass, left to rot, fall apart, and burn up. To provide amusement for those on the planet below.

      But the great Xinxie ship remained silent. Sterile. The bright gold of the hull tarnished with blast marks and fire, its innards gracefully spilling out into space.

      The ship had been the pride of their nation. A battleship with its own fleet of fighters.

      Caitlin wasn’t about to get closer to the old ship, to try to dig out its remaining treasures by herself. She was alone on her ship, Carrion Crow, and she really wasn’t equipped for salvage. Her

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