’Mid Pleasures and Palaces

By James McKimmey, Jr.

It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing your life out instantly beneath its weight. Your only possible defenses are your brain and voice—but how do you argue with a boulder which neither sees nor hears?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781515412465

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’Mid Pleasures and Palaces

by James McKimmey, Jr.

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’Mid Pleasures and Palaces

by James McKimmey, Jr.

It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing your life out instantly beneath its weight. Your only possible defenses are your brain and voice—but how do you argue with a boulder which neither sees nor hears?

This Planet was remote and set apart, and nothing about it had made William Kirk think he might find human life. Yet just beyond, through a thorny bush shaped like an exploding rose, Kirk had seen eyes and nose and a flash of yellow hair that were definitely human.

Kirk poised motionless. He was three miles from the rocket and Leo, who was waiting inside of it. He thought for a moment of how