Cosmic Tales 5: Pipe Dreams

By Richard C. Parr

On a frozen mountain range, Elwood and Rodeena adopt disguises to try and scare away a bunch of workers from constructing an oil pipeline.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard C. Parr
• Release date: Feb 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310233067

Richard C. Parr

Frequent traveller, artist, fitness enthusiast, musician, cook and writer. Lover of science-fiction and RPG games.

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COSMIC TALES 5: PIPE DREAMS

By

Richard C. Parr

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Cosmic Tales 5: Pipe Dreams

Copyright (C) 2015 by Richard C. Parr

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Pipe Dreams

A stream of snow performed a twisting pirouette as it kicked up and moved in random directions. The wintry dance was disturbed by a pod car, levitating with a low buzz and a scent of fiery metal as it melted a track with a trail of stream. Its engine moaned and petered out as it slowed to a standstill approaching what appeared to be a barrier taking shape as the mist cleared. Two silhouettes, one substantially taller than the other, came into view. The tall one was grey, robotic and not at all dressed appropriately for an unforgiving winter, while the other donned a thicker than usual furry fleece, deep hood and a grimacing expression as a bracing wind battered him down. The fleeced being struggled to walk through the snow