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    Quota

    By Stephen Cote

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    Life is short and brutal in the apocalyptic wasteland. Skag Murdet culls herds for slaughter to help sustain the population on razor-thin margins of available sustenance. Everyone has a duty to perform. Everyone has a quota to fill.

    Parental Warning: This story contains imagery which may be disturbing to young readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Cote
    Release dateDec 24, 2012
    ISBN9781301019021
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    Stephen Cote

    I am a software and security architect and manager. I enjoy writing hard and whimsical science fiction, adult fantasy, and poetry. As an early advocate of Creative Commons licensing, many of my short stories and poems have been available online since 1996.If you would like to learn more about my writing, open source projects, please contact me at sw.cote@gmail.com.

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