Zero Gravity: A Good Day to Die

By P J Lawton

...it’s just a routine re-supply run to the old space station prison. For Captain Trace Thomas and crew it’s been a long haul and they’re glad this trip is almost over... unfortunately real trouble is about to come their way... escaped alien prisoners commandeer the ship with a diabolical plan to reignite a deadly space war, a war that has already claimed millions of lives. Trace knows he can’t let that happen. One-by-one, as members of his crew are killed, Trace realizes he must somehow survive long enough to thwart this iniquitous plan...no matter what the cost.

• Language: English
• Publisher: P J Lawton
• Release date: Aug 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476153506

P J Lawton

Paul F. Johnson writes under the pen-name P.J. Lawton. P J’s writing credentials now include three Winston Simon private detective mystery-adventure novels, Lethal Option, Lethal Judgment, and Lethal Knowledge, Time Ripples, a time travel mystery novel, and The Adventures of Majestic Kane, Galactic P.I., a Sci-Fi private detective mystery novel. His e-books include Tiny Voices, Keeping Promises, Future Shock, Destiny’s Quest, The Face of Evil, and Zero Gravity, in the paranormal and Sci-Fi genres. He also published two volumes of horror and Sci-Fi short stories, Passing Shadows and Terminal Velocity along with four children’s books in his Timmy adventure series. Now fully retired, he keeps busy working on several writing projects and as a reviewer for on-line review sites

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Zero Gravity

A Good day to Die

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P.J. Lawton

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Zero Gravity

A Good Day to Die

He’d heard somewhere about survival in a hostile environment being tricky and the wait always the hardest part. I guess that’s true, he thought, especially when you really have no chance of survival and are simply waiting to die.

Yes, he was going to die, of that there was no doubt. He wouldn’t be going out alone though. Bitterly he thought, in the end the Boners paid the ultimate price today for what they’d done.

Staring through the small viewport toward all the derelict ships, fatalistically he thought of that old Keylon Warrior saying and quietly spoke it out loud. Today is a good day to die.

Casting a quick glance to the row of gauges he noted that it was the largest and brightest. The oxygen indicator gauge was like a flame and he was the moth continually drawn to it. The huge oversized dial was almost to the red zone. He knew that even by limiting his movement and conserving oxygen there was still only a couple of hours remaining. Leaning against the cold steel wall of the escape pod he thought, the fault is entirely mine. I didn’t see it coming, not at all.

Earlier while searching the cabinet containing the emergency kit he found the small device. He now switched on the recorder and started to talk. After all, someday someone might find this little capsule floating out here with all the other space junk. There needed to be a record of what transpired these last days. He owed