Salvaged

By Lael Salaets

A young man scavenges a war-torn borderland, only to find a prisoner from a labor camp.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lael Salaets
• Release date: Mar 8, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370637089

Lael Salaets

Lael Salaets is a science fiction writer, freelance artist and graphic designer, Gulf War veteran and a former US Marine. He is also a member of the Wordos, a professional writers workshop in Eugene, Oregon. His work has appeared in Writers of the Future XXVI and Abyss & Apex.

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Salvaged

By Lael Salaets

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Copyright 2017 Lael Salaets

This story is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

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Introduction

Midpoint

About the Author

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I would like to thank the Wordos, a professional writers workshop of Eugene, Oregon.

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In this dirty business, Dad would say, you might as well have a clean conscience.

Easier said than done, Blane thought. The only cause I’m committed to is survival.

Dad had worn himself down fixing that dead end colony. Blane wished he could have saved him. Saved him from himself. He felt cold and empty inside leaving his father buried at the salvage yard in the outskirts of Rova.

Now he was desperate, scavving out north for whatever he could sell to a trader. Rations. Medicine. Tech. Enough for a