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    The Night Before: Starship Teapot
    The Night Before: Starship Teapot
    The Night Before: Starship Teapot
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    The Night Before: Starship Teapot

    By SI CLARKE

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    Lem and her dog, Spock, have a late-night encounter with a stowaway.

    'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Teapot…

    Not a creature was stirring, not even a lonely robot;

    The stockings were hung in the mess hall with care

    In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Hart Fiction
    Release dateDec 11, 2023
    ISBN9798215199701
    The Night Before: Starship Teapot

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      Book preview

      The Night Before - SI CLARKE

      The Night Before

      THE NIGHT BEFORE

      A JOLLY LITTLE STORY … IN SPACE

      A STARSHIP TEAPOT SHORT

      SI CLARKE

      White Hart FIction

      The Night Before

      www.whitehartfiction.co.uk

      Copyright © 2022 by SI CLARKE

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Most recent update: 21 March 2024

      Editing by: Nicholas Taylor of Just Write Right

      Cover art by: Rebeca Covers

      Cover text by: Cover Fixer

      Black and white illustration by: Ricardo Mossini

      Vellum flower icon Created with Vellum

      CONTENTS

      Author’s note

      Audiobook

      1. The Night Before

      Two weeks earlier

      02.13 a.m. Christmas Day

      02.17 a.m. Christmas Day

      02.39 a.m. Christmas Day

      Continue the adventure

      The end (for now)

      About the author

      Also by SI CLARKE

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      This story is set after the events of The

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