Bond Beyond Measure: The Ramblers, #1

By Karl Thorn

This is a short story of a 5 year old boy, while on a passenger liner, finds himself in the middle of an adult war. This leads to an extraordinary encounter with an alien species.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karl Thorn
• Release date: Sep 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310926624

Karl Thorn

Technical Support Engineer Two degrees in electronics

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Bond Beyond Measure

By Karl Thorn

Published by Karl Thorn at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 Karl Thorn

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Five year old Patric Debeck jumped and fidgeted with nervous excitement as his mother pointed out their destination, a star, unmoving in the center of the star field. It was now visible to the naked eye.

That’s Yeltson’s star? Patric asked. Where dad is?

Yes, the mother confirmed for the hundredth time. She smiled to herself. Her son was really excited. His dad was stationed at Yeltson.

They stood at the passenger liner’s observation window watching the other stars gently move toward them. Why isn’t it moving toward us like the others? Patric asked, grabbing his mother’s hand. He had dark hair that covered his ears.

It is, Deleana Debeck answered. It doesn’t look like it because we are heading directly for it. Her hair was the same color as her son’s only it flowed over her shoulders and down her back.

Dad is there, right? He asked again, looking up to