Cooper: A Short Story

By Monalisa Foster

Forensic firearms analyst Timothy Woodsman loves his job. Until Cooper, one of the guns passing through his lab, starts making conversation.

At first he thinks it must be a trick—the guys picking on the lab rat—and vows to ignore them.

But when his past, present and future collide, a quest for identity begins.

Does he need Cooper to rediscover or just redefine himself?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Monalisa Foster
• Release date: Nov 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393445432

Monalisa Foster

Monalisa won life’s lottery when she escaped communism and became an unhyphenated American citizen. Her works tend to explore themes of freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility. Despite her degree in physics, she’s worked in several fields including engineering and medicine. She and her husband are living their happily ever after in Texas. Her primary genre is science fiction--from hard sci-fi to alternate history to space opera. She has also written some contemporary fiction, as well as dystopian and military sci-fi. She describes her work as science fiction with heart, because life is too short without at least a bit of romance in it. 

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Cooper

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Novellas

Enemy Beloved

Featherlight

Dominion (available November 2020)

Short Story

Bonds of Duty and Love (available April 7, 2020)

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—Short Fiction—

The Greatest Crime (upcoming)

The Heretic (available December 13, 2019)

Catching the Dark

Bellona’s Gift

Promethea Invicta: A Novella

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Equality

Dolus Magnus: The Great Hoax

Collective Responsibility

—Non-fiction—

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Cooper

A Short Story

Monalisa Foster

Polite Society Enterprises LLC

For Jeff Cooper

Copyright © 2018 by Monalisa Foster

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All rights reserved.

This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Printed in the United States of America

A different version of this story first appeared in To Be Men: Stories Celebrating Masculinity.

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Newsletter Signup

About the Author

Ravages of Honor

Enemy Beloved: A Ravages of Honor Novella

Featherlight: A Ravages of Honor Novella

Dominion: A Ravages of Honor Novella

Bonds of Duty and Love: A Ravages of Honor Short Story

Catching the Dark

The Heretic

Bellona’s Gift

Promethea Invicta

Chapter 1

The 1911 Colt Government Model had been peace-tied. Someone had threaded a plastic zip-tie through the gun's notched hammer and trigger guard in a vain attempt to make it safe.

Tim ran his manicured hand over the checkered, wooden grips. Not many 1911s came through his hands any more. This was no collectible, no ornament. No perp's throw-away either.

Which was strange. According to his records, it had been turned in as part of the federal Guns to Plowshares amnesty. Unlike its predecessors--which were actually a golden opportunity for criminals to get cash for allowing the Feds to destroy the evidence connecting them to murders and robberies--this program required a check against the stolen list before the guns were destroyed. Nonetheless, since the program's inception, Tim had dealt with more Ravens than Edgar Allen Poe.

The Colt had seen a lot of use—slide-to-frame wear and faded bluing from a holster—but been lovingly maintained. It still gave off a scent of gun oil, even in the basement range's