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    Sweet Selene
    Sweet Selene
    Sweet Selene
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    Sweet Selene

    By Emily Weber

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    A man seeks medication for his rare disease in a futuristic, overly populated galaxy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmily Weber
    Release dateFeb 6, 2017
    ISBN9781370628216
    Sweet Selene
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    Emily Weber

    An artist/writer. Contact me: zimeta08@hotmail.com

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      Sweet Selene - Emily Weber

      Sweet Selene

      A short story by Emily Weber

      Copyright 2017

      Lyman fiddled with his suit as he stood in line. Having no regular caretaker it was up to him to keep up with its maintenance. Luckily, his daily check of all his various tubes and diagnostic screens turned up nothing; he was fine--for now.

      His suit was highly customized; he’d been in it for a few hundred years, so he’d had plenty of time to make it unique to his personality. The chassis part was blue, and his monitors shown green from the anterior plating. His arms and legs were sheathed in a thick, matted, black, but slimming material.

      The line he stood in stretched out of the Galactic Pharmacy, a building as large as a regular hospital. They served drugs to every species imaginable at Galactic Pharmacies, so it was no small wonder half the people in line were stuck waiting out in the cold. Luckily, the weather didn’t bother Lyman because his suit completely enshrouded him. Even his head and shoulder girdle were encapsulated in a life-giving tank of a special liquid – Tank Heads was what most people called survivors of the Great Virus.

      Out of the corner of his eye he saw a little girl staring at him. Tank Heads

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