Kris Longknife's Bad Day
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You knew when Kris asked for a desk job that it wasn't going to be pretty. Well, here's the bad, the worst, and the ugly. Budgets! This short story started out as the opening chapters to Kris Longknife - Emissary, but hey, we all know how bad an office job is. Who wants to start off an action adventure yarn with just another day at the office? So I cut it. But, I know there are some of you out there who must have wondered if a bad Longknife day at the office was as bad as yours. Who has wondered what Kris had been doing for the last (mumble, mumble) years? So here is it is. Enjoy, you masochists.
Mike Shepherd
Mike Shepherd is the author of Like Another Lifetime In Another World an historic fiction based on his experiences as a reporter for Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam in 1967 and ‘68. It too is available through iUniverse.com. Shepherd is a free-lance writer who lives in the country near Springfield, Illinois.
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Kris Longknife's Bad Day - Mike Shepherd
Kris Longknife’s Bad Day
A Short Story
Mike Shepherd
KL & MM BooksKris Longknife’s Bad Day
A Short Story
Published by KL & MM Books
February 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Mike Moscoe
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.
This book is a work of fiction set 400 years in humanity’s future. Any similarity between present people, places or events would be spectacularly unlikely and is purely coincidental.
This book is written and published by the author. Please don’t pirate it. I’m self-employed. The money I earn from the sales of these books allows me to produce more stories to entertain you. I’d hate to have to get a day job again. If this book comes into your hands free, please consider going to your favorite e-book provider and investing in a copy so I can continue to earn a living at this wonderful art.
I would like to thank my wonderful cover artist, Scott Grimando, who did all my Ace covers and will continue doing my own book covers. I also am grateful for the editing skill of Lisa Müller, David Vernon Houston, Edee Lemonier, and, as ever, Ellen Moscoe.
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Note to long time readers of Kris’s saga: Due to the limitations that impact self-published books, the small caps that has highlighted talk on Nelly Net has been replaced with ALL CAPS BUT IN A SMALLER FONT.
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A whopping good read . . . Fast-paced, exciting, nicely detailed, with some innovative touches.
- Elisabeth Moon, Nebula Award-winning author of Crown Renewal
"Shepherd delivers no shortage of military action, in space and on the ground. It’s cinematic, dramatic, and dynamic . . . [He also] demonstrates a knack for characterization, balancing serious