By Earthlight

By Bryce Walton

We all have to die sometime, but it's more the manner of our going, and the reason why we must die when we do that's the rub.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781682997581

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By Earthlight

By Bryce Walton

Start Publishing LLC

Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

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ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-758-1

By Earthlight

We all have to die sometime, but it’s more the manner of our going, and the reason why we must die when we do that’s the rub.

The rocket skin was like a dun-colored wall in the dim light under the hill. Three anonymous men who were beyond suspicion, who had worked on the rocket, were taking Barlow up in the elevator, up along the rocket’s curving walls.

Earlier, scores of men had climbed up many ladders to various platforms where doors opened into the rocket’s compartments for the insertion and repair of the many highly-specialized instruments.

It was still—so damn still here!

Some guards were way down below somewhere in the shadows, but they didn’t notice anything. The three men were regular workers and there were last minute things to be done. It all looked quite logical.

Over in the blockhouse, some of America’s