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    The Stars for a Fee and other flash fiction
    The Stars for a Fee and other flash fiction
    The Stars for a Fee and other flash fiction
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    The Stars for a Fee and other flash fiction

    By Samuel Mae

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    A man who exists beside time. Another man newly arrived at a rest-home with a difference. A heist gone bad, and a boy who ages far slower than those around him. The Stars for A Fee contains five flash fiction stories by writer Samuel Mae. They each will only take a few minutes to read, but those will be minutes well spent.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamuel Mae
    Release dateDec 23, 2010
    ISBN9781458144829
    The Stars for a Fee and other flash fiction
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    Samuel Mae

    Samuel Mae primarily writes speculative fiction, which is really just a fancy way of saying he likes to write stuff that includes lasers and spaceships and other shiny things. He's sold short fiction to a number of venues, including Electric Velocipede and Kaleidotrope, and has even managed to sell a poem that featured quantum mechanics in a post-apocalyptic environment. For more information, check out his website at http://www.samuelmae.info.

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