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    Shen Ji and the Celestial
    Shen Ji and the Celestial
    Shen Ji and the Celestial
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    Shen Ji and the Celestial

    By Loretta Johnson

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    XX-XY Holdings is New Shanghai's largest producer of vat grown human flesh, strictly for off-world sale to the alien races known as the celestials. Shen Ji has her own reasons for joining XX-XY but makes a shocking discovery during a routine meeting. One of the celestials is human . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLoretta Johnson
    Release dateSep 14, 2013
    ISBN9780992114978
    Shen Ji and the Celestial
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    Loretta Johnson

    Loretta Johnson was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario.

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      Shen Ji and the Celestial - Loretta Johnson

      SHEN JI AND THE CELESTIAL

      Loretta Johnson

      Copyright © Loretta Johnson, 2013

      Cover design copyright © Loretta Johnson, 2013

      Photo copyright © Loretta Johnson, 2013 (washroom mural at Chelsea Avenue Playground, artist unknown; now sadly painted over)

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      Table of Contents

      One: New Shanghai

      Two: The Meeting

      Three: Zhang

      Four: Ms Chen

      Five: Playing Tourist

      Six: The Offer

      One: New Shanghai

      Shen Ji was rising, the moving walkway carrying her up to the clustered towers of Money City, the trading district of New Shanghai. The smog of the undercity was only a brownish haze from this height, concealing innumerable tank farms, rusting spaceport debris and the polluted ocean. Crowds of night shift office workers, eyes blank, shoulders slumped with exhaustion trudged down the fixed walkway that ran parallel to hers. If they looked at her they would see a cut-throat trader in an ox-blood silk suit, short black

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