Playing For Scraps

By Michael Kingswood

A private detective on a space station helps a down-on-his-luck musician who got into trouble with some very dangerous people.

 

Playing For Scraps is a short science fiction story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SSN Storytelling
• Release date: Nov 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215441916

Michael Kingswood

Michael Kingswood has written numerous science fiction and fantasy stories, including The Pericles Conspiracy, The Glimmer Vale Chronicles, and the Dawn of Enlightenment series. His interest in scifi/fantasy came at an early age: he first saw Star Wars in the theater when he was three and grew up on Star Trek in syndication. The Hobbit was among the first books he recalls reading. Recognizing with sadness that the odds of his making it into outer space were relatively slim, after completing his bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, he did the next best thing - he entered the US Navy as a submarine officer. Almost seventeen years later, he continues to serve on active duty and has earned graduation degrees in Engineering Management and Business Administration. Fitting with his service onboard Fast Attack submarines (SSNs), he does his writing on Saturdays, Sundays, and at Night. He is married to a lovely lady from Maine. They have four children, and live wherever the Navy deems to send them. Sign up to receive email announcements of Michael's new releases and other exclusive deals for newsletter subscribers here: http://eepurl.com/eND22 .

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Playing For Scraps

Playing For Scraps

A Short Science Fiction Story

Michael Kingswood

SSN Storytelling

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A private detective on a space station helps a down-on-his-luck musician who got into trouble with some very dangerous people.

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Playing For Scraps is a short science fiction story.

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Playing For Scraps

Iwas just tallying up the invoice for my latest case, an easy job for a little old lady down on the station's third level, when Jason commed for entrance to my office.

I'd known Jason for a couple years, and when he commed the image of his face popped up into the upper-left corner of my vision, courtesy of the database implants I'd had installed last year. Made forgetting names and faces a thing of the past, but sometimes it could also be annoying. Like now, when I had been busily deciding whether to charge Ms. Gorant for the gratuity I'd had to slip to a security guy or just let it slide.

So I tried to ignore Jason's comm. Maybe he'd go away.

But he commed again a few seconds later.

Screw it. I'd let her pass on this one. Swiping the gratuity entry out of the invoice, I made a sweeping downward gesture with my left hand, and the holo of