Fool's Gold (A Mercenary Warfare Short Story)

By Zen DiPietro

Omar Freeborn doesn’t expect too much out of life. A warm bed and not getting knifed is usually enough for him. He’s thrown a curve when his sister not only steals his bed, but involves him in her business deal gone wrong.

All he can do is dig in and pull off some trading mastery. Maybe, if he’s lucky, he won’t get knifed in the process.

“Fool’s Gold” is a short story in the Mercenary Warfare series, a spinoff of Dragonfire Station.

Books in the Dragonfire Station series in chronological order:

Dragonfire Station Book 1: Translucid
Dragonfire Station Book 2: Fragments
Dragonfire Station Book 3: Coalescence

Mercenary Warfare Book 1: Selling Out

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zen DiPietro
• Release date: Jun 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370425761

Zen DiPietro

I like noodles and cats. I work hard. I dream a lot. I think in terms of how things could be rather than what they are. I like the word "if" because it changes everything. My best stories and art come from me asking "What if...?"I like trying things. I like thinking and laughing. I like it when my cat doesn't attack my feet when I'm sleeping.

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Fool’s Gold

Fool’s

Gold

Zen DiPietro

Parallel Worlds Press

FOOL’S GOLD (A MERCENARY WARFARE SHORT STORY)

COPYRIGHT © 2017 BY ZEN DIPIETRO

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, business establishments, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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Published in the United States of America by Parallel Worlds Press

Contents

About This Story

1. Fool’s Gold

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About This Story

Thank you for reading Fool’s Gold. This work is a short story that occurs within the Mercenary Warfare series, which is a spinoff series of Dragonfire Station. You can find all the books in this series listed below.

Translucid (Dragonfire Station

Book

1

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Fragments (Dragonfire Station

Book

2

)

Coalescence (Dragonfire Station

Book

3

)

Selling Out (Mercenary Warfare Book 1, a Dragonfire Station series)

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Fool’s

Gold

In a single day, Omar Freeborn had been cheated, lied to, and nearly stabbed. A fairly typical day at work, but he was tired. He hadn’t yet adjusted to life back on Dauntless Station, after all the sunshine and greenery of the Briveen homeworld.

All he wanted was to get home to his quarters, sit down, and enjoy a beer while he watched the pegball finals.

At his door, he