Creature

By Brett P. S.

Helene Kirsch, hired gun for Hammond and his interstellar research team, encountered an alien during a routine asteroid mining exercise. Having survived her close encounter, Helene flew back to Solus Station with a tall tale and an empty cargo pod behind her re-purposed fighter. Unknown to her, however, her cargo pod wasn't empty. A new threat now lurked the halls of Solus.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brett P. S.
• Release date: Aug 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311506375

Brett P. S.

Brett Sawyer (1986), born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, is an indie author who writes short stories & novellas, from science fiction to heroes. He graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 2015 with a Bachelor’s in education and currently teaches game design at Lake Land College.Short Change arrived at retailers in November of 2014, the start of a hero series where ordinary people gained powers over oddly specific domains, following the story of a shorter than average hero who can telekinetically manipulate small units of currency.Short Change is free on “smashwords.com/profile/view/BrettPS” and Barnes & Noble along with other samples and short fiction.Brett’s popular releases in science fiction include “Dark Station” and “Tales from the Colony: An Interstellar Saga.” Dark Station is a deep space thriller set aboard an abandoned orbital science station where Ben Gebbley and his crew secretly investigate the disappearance of the original staff before others come to claim the lost assets.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I – DOCKING BAY

CHAPTER II – STOW AWAY

CHAPTER III – GEARED UP

CHAPTER IV – CLOSE ENCOUNTER

CHAPTER V – NARROW ESCAPE

CHAPTER VI – BARE ESSENTIALS

CHAPTER VII – ABOUT TIME

Chapter I

Docking Bay

Helene jumped down from the cockpit of her repurposed S3-81 fighter and planted her feet on the riveted flooring of Solus Station. Her boots met the ground with a clang as the metal clashed with a titanium panel. The docking bay stood practically silent while a handful of mechanics pushed half-filled carts around, hovering haulers fitted to carry scrap ore and other raw materials brought in by the other exploration modules.

Modules one and two arrived a few minutes before she did, carrying hefty loads of iron ore from the outer limits of the asteroid belt. Modules four and five flew in empty handed, however, returning with little more than mined asteroid rock that Hammond’s people might be able to salvage into something useful. Helene, on the other hand, rode in with an empty cargo pod and a leaking one at that. Whatever rubble remained inside froze over from the flight. Unusable garbage.

She stared down