Only Sheepdog on the Moon

By Stefon Mears

Ganymede: a half-terraformed, isolated human outpost. Low population, all pioneering spacers with a frontier attitude.

Where retired Captain Cole Douglas runs a bar in an old shuttlecraft.

Far from help, if that orange flash in the sky indicates an invasion force...

"Only Sheepdog on the Moon" A military space adventure short story about one man facing off an invading force. From Stefon Mears, author of Stealing from Pirates and Fade to Gold.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thousand Faces Publishing
• Release date: Mar 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386241867

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Only Sheepdog on the Moon

Only Sheepdog on the Moon

Stefon Mears

Thousand Faces Publishing

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Cole Douglas finished his afternoon jog through the scrub grass of the foothills. Half-assed job they did of terraforming Ganymede back during the great Deuterium Rush thirty years ago. Even the sky never got more than pale blue, which Cole blamed for his heavy breathing after only ten miles. Thin air from the bad terraforming, not age starting to rear its ugly head. Air didn't even taste fresh from last night's rain. It had that cloying little tang like he was around mold.

Besides, Cole was only fifty, not an old man yet.

Hands on his hips he walked in circles. No good going back to the bar sucking air like he was. Couldn't let the locals think he'd gone soft. Never hear the end of it then. Not that any of them had a right to point fingers about going soft. They liked their safe isolation on