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Where were you on the day that the Earth disappeared?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So there I was, on an awkward first date with my secret crush, when the colonies went into revolt. They nuked the moon and hijacked half of Earthfleet\u2014and that was just the opening salvo.<\/p>\n

Then I learned that my date was one of the terrorists (or patriots, depending on your politics), and I had to make a choice: join her, or spend the next few days stuffed in an EVA suit locker. I chose the former, and that’s the only reason I’m still here.<\/p>\n

The name’s Rex Carter. On the day the Earth disappeared, the civil war had just broken out, and I didn’t know which side I was on. All I knew was that my homeworld had been swallowed by an alien anomaly, and I had to get to Jane and Sam, my gunslinging sister and brother-in-law.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Kletchkas are no longer with us. But that’s part of my story, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the colonies went into revolt and my secret crush all but kidnapped me, I didn’t know whether she was a patriot or a terrorist. Then Earth was swallowed by an alien anomaly, and I realized that if I picked the wrong side, I would never see my family again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1368],"product_tag":[1381,1390,1376,1392,1377],"class_list":{"0":"post-13693","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ebooks","7":"product_tag-action-adventure","8":"product_tag-alien-contact","9":"product_tag-science-fiction","10":"product_tag-space-exploration","11":"product_tag-space-opera","12":"entry","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"downloadable","17":"virtual","18":"taxable","19":"purchasable","20":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}