How Dabney Got His Hat

By Caitlan Burns

In the future, humans have made contact with the rest of the universe and quickly joined them on numerous worlds. In these early days of expansion, Dabney is one human trying to live going from planet to planet and doing all sorts of jobs, both legal and not so much. He's a gambler, a drinker, an occasional scoundrel and and a pretty decent guy. This is how he got his hat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Caitlan Burns
• Release date: Jul 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301182527

Caitlan Burns

Caitlan Burns is an author in her twenties who as lived in Texas most of her life. Perhaps ironically, she usually writes about people who live in fantastic worlds or, at the very least, worlds that aren't wherever she is. She's been doing this since school and is proud to say that, a few years ago, she actually became readable. Cait lives in Austin with a hound dog and cats at her door. She doesn't get out much,in great part because she's writing.

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How Dabney Got His Hat

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How Dabney Got His Hat

There was a cold wind on Quiltain Seven. It whipped through the colorful sashes on and stretching between the rounded buildings of Breeleighly. Breeleighly had been a port town for centuries and still was; a space port, an airport and a sea port. The cool wind was probably coming off the murky green waters or from the wind whipped up by a world transport or a space transport. Still, there was talk of global cooling from the locals,